Kyo Maclear

Kyo Maclear is a children’s author, novelist and essayist. She was born in London, England and moved to Toronto at the age of four.

Kyo is the author of many critically-acclaimed children’s books including: Virginia Wolf (2012), illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault; The Liszts (2016) with Júlia Sardà; Operatic (2019), illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler; It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way (2019), illustrated by Julie Morstad (2018); and The Big Bath House (2021), illustrated by Gracey Zhang.

Kyo's non-fiction book Birds Art Life follows two artists on a yearlong adventure to find birds in a big city. It is an intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant. She is also the author of two novels: The Letter Opener (2007) and Stray Love (2012).

Her essays and art criticism have been widely published and anthologized in North America, Europe and Asia/Australia.

She lives in Toronto with three musicians and two cats.