Ann Walsh is the author of Your Time, My Time, Shabash!, and The Ghost of Soda Creek. She is also the creator of the Barkerville historical mystery series, whose first two novels are Moses, Me, and Murder, and The Doctor's Apprentice (nominated for the Sheila Egoff Award for Children's Literature). All her books have received the Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Award, and she has also earned nominations for the Silver Birch and Geoffrey Bilson Awards. She lives in Williams Lake, B.C.