Website Harriet Zaidman is a writer for young people and a freelancer living in Winnipeg. Her young adult novel, Second Chances, set in the polio epidemics of the 1950s, won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People in 2022. Her first historical novel, City on Strike, followed the lives of young immigrant children during the tumultuous 1919 Winnipeg General Strike and was also a finalist for the Bilson Award.
Harriet has also written three picture books, writes book reviews for the Winnipeg Free Press and articles for The Cottager Magazine – Lake Country Living and Lifestyle. She worked as a teacher-librarian in Winnipeg for 25 years.
