Chad Lucas
Chad Lucas has always loved working with words, as a journalist, communications professional, parenting columnist, and author. His debut novel, Thanks A Lot, Universe, won the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children’s Literature and was named a best middle grade book by the School Library Journal, New York Public Library, and Canadian Children’s Book Centre. His other titles include Let The Monster Out, a Forest of Reading and Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award nominee; You Owe Me One, Universe, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection; and The Vanished Ones, released in January 2025. His short fiction has appeared in Event Magazine, the Dalhousie Review, and the anthology Today I Am: 10 Stories of Belonging.
