Joel A. Sutherland

Author, "Ghost Guy," Barbarian Librarian

Joel A. Sutherland is the Silver Birch Award-winning author of House of Ash and Bone (Tundra Books/Penguin Random House), Screamers (Scholastic Canada), numerous volumes of Haunted Canada (a series that now has more than 500,000 copies in print, recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, and is coming soon as a graphic novel), and Summer's End (a Red Maple Award Honour Book currently in development for television by Scholastic Entertainment). His series, Haunted, including The House Next Door, has been praised by Goosebumps author R.L. Stine. He has a Masters of Information and Library Studies from Aberystwyth University in Wales and lives in southeastern Ontario with his family. 

(Author photo: Colleen Morris)