Carol McDougall

Carol McDougall is a writer and advocate for early literacy. She was born in Northern Ontario and has been active in the Nova Scotia writing community for many years.

Carol and Shanda Jones are the co-creators of Nimbus Publishing's best-selling, Baby Steps series - a series of books developed specifically for baby's first years.

In 2005 she was awarded the Mayor’s Award for her contribution to literature and literacy and in 2010 received the Progress Women of Excellence Award for the Arts.

In 2012 Carol received the Beacon Award for Social Justice Literature for her novel Wake the Stone Man, which was inspired by her northern roots. The novel was published in 2015 by Roseway Publishing.

Carol's work includes writing for children, non-fiction, fiction, essays, book reviews and video scripts and her short fiction has been published in Room and presented on CBC radio.