Laurie Petrou
Laurie Petrou is a Canadian author and professor. She won the Half the World Global Literati Award in 2016 for Sister of Mine.
Career
Petrou is an associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University in the RTA School of Media. She won the inaugural Half the World Global Literati Award in 2016 for her manuscript, Sister of Mine. In 2017, HarperCollins acquired the Canadian rights to the manuscript. Crooked Lane Books acquired U.S. rights 2018. The book was published in 2018 and was Petrou's first novel. She had previously published Between, a collection of short stories.Petrou's novel, Stargazer, was released in 2022. That same year, it was optioned by the Canadian production company Nikki Ray Media Agency.