Dr. Kari-Lynn Winters is an Associate Professor, award-winning Canadian children’s author, performer, and playwright. She currently teaches drama-in-education, dance-in-education, and language arts to teacher candidates at Brock University in the Faculty of Education. Holding degrees from UBC, OISE/UT, Brock University, and the National Theatre School in literacy education, teacher education, and the arts, her research interests include: refugee education, mental health, social equity, STEAM, body image, embodied pedagogies, children’s literature, drama, and multimodal literacies.