I am an award-winning Canadian author of adult and children’s fiction.

My novels, stories, and nonfiction have been published in Canada, the US, the UK, France, Italy, Japan, and other countries. My first novel, Icefields, received the 1996 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in Canada and the Caribbean. My collection of stories, The Logogryph, was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. In addition to my adult fiction I have published a YA fantasy trilogy, The Perilous Realm, and a picture book for children, Rutherford the Time-traveling Moose.

I live in a place with lots of trees, near Edmonton, Alberta.

Selected quotes about my work:

ICEFIELDS:

“Wharton writes with a prose style as clear as glacial waters, tempered with brilliant imagery and lucid dialogue.” CALGARY HERALD

“Icefields is a novel of crystalline beauty from a writer to watch.” TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“Ice, when it is touched, can sear the flesh; in Icefields, it fires the imagination.” PEOPLE MAGAZINE

 Icefields: “… careful dialogue, a steady pace and cool, subtle prose.”  NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

SALAMANDER:

“Wharton's style is flexible, poetic, inventive, and always lucid." THE GUARDIAN

"A magical tale of books and riddles, castles and countesses." ELLE

"the sort of book every reader hopes to find, earnestly passes along to friends, and returns to in their dreams..." NATIONAL POST

THE LOGOGRYPH

 “… a book that sends you spinning off into lovely reveries of longing and desire. It is the kind of book you will recommend to close friends and family with words like: You have to read this! You must read this book!”  EDMONTON JOURNAL

“Wharton is one of the few Canadian practitioners of experimental fiction in the vein of Borges and Calvino … Dear Reader, go now and find The Logogryph.” The GLOBE & MAIL

 "… a book like no other -- and I mean that in the most serious and complimentary way possible. However you respond to The Logogryph, you will agree that what Wharton has accomplished is the very definition of literary invention." LOS ANGELES TIMES