Kira Vermond is an award-winning author and longtime freelance writer from Guelph, Ont. With over 1,500 articles under her belt, Canadians have read her travel, career and money columns in The Globe and Mail and Chatelaine and listened to her career advice on CBC Radio weekday mornings. She’s also an author of adult and children’s non-fiction books including Red Maple nominated The Secret Life of Money: A Kid’s Guide to Cash and Growing Up, Inside and Out. Her book, Why We Live Where We Live (Owlkids) won the prestigious Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-fiction in 2015. Her fourth book for children, Half-truths and Brazen Lies: An Honest Look at Lying came out in April 2016 and has also been nominated for a Silver Birch (non-fiction) award. Kira has also contributed to MoneySense, Owl, Today’s Parent, MORE, Canadian Family, PROFIT, FORUM magazine and many other consumer and trade publications.