1. Alice Kuipers was born on 29 June 1979 and is a British author living in Saskatchewan, Canada who is best known for her young adult novels.
12 Facts About Alice Kuipers
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Alice Kuipers attended the Westminster School in London, before receiving a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Manchester University.
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Alice Kuipers later graduated with Distinction with a Master of Arts degree in Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Alice Kuipers's mother is Head of the Department of Psychology at King's College in London, England and a Professor of Clinical Psychology.
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At eighteen, Alice Kuipers travelled alone for a year with an itinerary that included the Cook Islands, New Zealand, Cambodia, Australia, Vietnam and the US, which she has stated had a significant influence on her work.
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Alice Kuipers moved to Saskatchewan, Canada and settled there in 2003.
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Two more books by Alice Kuipers were published in 2016: Violet and Victor Write the Most Fabulous Fairytale, again with illustrator Bethanie Murguia, as well as Secrets of the Badlands, an interactive ebook.
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In 2017, Alice Kuipers released another young adult novel, Me Me, about a rising rock star, forced to make a terrible choice "and in that moment her world splits into two distinct lives".
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Alice Kuipers' non-fiction has been published in Easy Living Magazine, the Sunday Telegraph and the Bristol Review of Books.
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Since 1999, Alice Kuipers has led writing workshops in Hong Kong, the UK, Australia, Canada and the US, including a workshop in the Yukon in 2004.
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Alice Kuipers has been an invited lecturer and workshop leader at several festivals, including Montreal Blue Met Festival, Brisbane Festival of Literature, The Word on the Street Saskatoon, Wordfest Calgary, and The Vancouver Writers Fest, and was keynote presenter at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words in 2010.
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Alice Kuipers worked with software developer, Rich Lowenberg, to create the first Writing Tips App for iPhone, which went on to be the second bestselling app in the Educational Apps Listings in both the US and Canada in 2010.