 BETH GOOBIE
Place of birth: Guelph, Ontario
Place of residence: Edmonton, Alberta
In high school Beth Goobie studied and taught piano, wrote stories,
and was the recipient of academic and citizenship awards. She worked for
a year as a nanny in Holland, then moved to Winnipeg where she studied
English literature at the University of Winnipeg (receiving the gold medal)
and religious studies at the Mennonite Brethren Bible College. She has
worked for many years with physically and sexually abused children and
is concerned with issues surrounding the anger and powerlessness of those
under legal age. Addressing these issues in her writing, she has published
four novels for young adults and poems and short stories for an adult audience
in anthologies and magazines such as Fiddlehead, Malahat Review
and Quarry.
Awards
- 1995 League of Canadian Poets' Pat Lowther Award for Scars of Light.
- 1994 R. Ross Annett Juvenile Fiction Award for Mission Impossible.
Selected Bibliography
Books for Children and Young People
Group Homes From Outer Space. Don Mills, Ont.: Maxwell Macmillan
Canada, 1992.
83 p.: ill.; 18 cm. (Series 2000)
ISBN 0029540933
Kicked Out. Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice Hall Canada, c1995.
90 p. : ill.; 18 cm. (Series 2000)
ISBN 0132343789
Mission Impossible. Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Press,
c1994.
160 p.; 22 cm. (Northern lights young novels)
ISBN 0889951144
Who Owns Kelly Paddik? Illustrated by Greg Ruhl. Don Mills,
Ont.: Maxwell Macmillan Canada, c1993.
92 p.: ill.; 18 cm. (Series 2000)
ISBN 002954176X
Books for Adults
Could I Have My Body Back Now, Please? Edmonton: NeWest Press,
c1991.
144 p.; 22 cm.
ISBN 0920897096
Scars of Light. Edmonton: NeWest, c1994.
113 p.; 22 cm.
ISBN 0920897738
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