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Colleen Archer

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32931 Highway 17, RR1
Deep River, Ontario
KOJ 1PO
Phone: (613) 584-3213
Fax: (613) 584-3894
Email: archerc_a@sympatico.ca

Born: July 16, 1949. Winnipeg, Manitoba
Family: Husband Andrew, daughters Elizabeth and Heather, granddaughters Bridget and Alison

Biography

Colleen Rutherford Archer has published hundreds of articles and short stories for both adults and children in Canada and the United States. She and her husband own a small stable in Deep River, Ontario where for ten summers Colleen and her friends ran a volunteer therapeutic riding program for challenged children.

Colleen specializes in trick training equines, and she has also shown two dogs to the Utility (the highest) obedience level.

Published Works

Galloping Goldrush, the Journey Begins, K&B Products (publisher of the Horse Tales for the Soul books), 2005 This is the first in a series of six "tween" novels.
Accentuating the Positive, a Guide to Trick Training Your Horse at Home, e-book at www.thecompletepet.com, K&B Products, 2005 Collie Rescue, Penumbra Press, 2004
The Touch of Something Wild, Penumbra Press, 2003
The Horse Dealer (young adult novel), Borealis Press, 2000
Riding High (young adult novel), Penumbra Press
Foxy (young adult novel), Penumbra Press

Over 400 articles and short stories published in Canada and the United States in markets such as Canadian Living, Highlights for Children, Short Story International, Humpty Dumpty, The Beaver, and Animal Tales.

Awards

Ottawa Literary Award for the poem "Rhyming Couplets", 2005
CBC (Ottawa) short story award for "The Toothless Fairy."
Canadian Authors Association short story award for "The Dog Who Wanted to Die."
Ottawa CBC Children's Short Story Award
Vicky Metcalf Short Story Award

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