Deen, Natasha: - Natasha Deen is a best-selling and award-winning Guyanese-Canadian author, with books for children, young adults, and adults. She is a recipient of Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal. Her novel In the Key of Nira Ghani won the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award. Her works have also been nominated for the OLA Forest of Reading Red Maple Award, R. Ross Annett Award, Sunburst Award, Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, and Alberta Readers' Choice Award. Natasha teaches in the Creative Writing Program with the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies and lives in Edmonton, Alberta.