Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (born 1954) is a Ukrainian Canadian children's writer who lives in Brantford, Ontario. Marsha tricked her teachers into thinking she knew how to read until it all caught up with her in grade 4 when she failed the provincial reading exam. Adding insult to injury, they made her repeat the whole year. As the tallest and oldest kid in the class, she didn't want to be seen learning to read with little skinny books and she was too proud to ask for help, … Wikipedia
I grabbed this from Hal's blog :Join writers/editor Marsha Skrypuch, publisher/novelist/poet and former Broken Pencil mag editor Emily Schultz and writer/editor Hal Niedzviecki for a 4 day writing retreat. marsha-s.livejournal.com
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