About Polly Horvath
Polly Horvath has been writing books since she was eight. For a while she wrote books and attended school. Then she wrote books and attended The Canadian College of Dance.
She has written and waitressed and written and done temporary typing and written and tended babies (her own). Now she just writes.
Polly grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She went to college in Toronto and lived in New York and Montreal before settling on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with her husband Arnie Keller and their daughters, Emily and Rebecca.
They have a horse named Zayda and a smooth collie named Keena. They are surrounded by B.C. forest and are on constant look out for bears. There may even be some on this page. Look around.
Two views of Vancouver Island,
painted by Wendy Halperin
Polly on the Radio:
Here's an interview Polly gave on The Book Report, a radio program from Monroe, Louisiana:
Here's Polly talking on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about writing The Canning Season:
Polly on being a writer
from the FSG/Macmillan website