ADRIAN
HOAD-REDDICK
is a teacher, writer, radio host, magazine consultant and owner of
a new media company. He
has over twenty years of teaching experience. Adrian, a tireless champion
of the written word, loves to inspire young writers. The
Poem Repair Shop is the headquarters for his online Writer's Craft
course and is the web home of his weekly live literary radio show
co-produced with his students.
Adrian
is Creative Director of What
If? Canada's Creative Magazine for Teens. He is on the
planning Board of the Elora Writers' Festival and coordinates the
Young Writers' Workshops for the Eden Mills Writers' Festival.
Adrian is a word
puzzle fan and computer enthusiast. His word puzzles have appeared
in Games Magazine, Games' World of Puzzles, Reader's Digest, Health
Quarterly and What If? magazine. His crossword puzzles
for young readers can be found on Kenneth Oppel's website, and his
Harry Potter crosswords will challenge muggles on the Raincoast Books'
site. Adrian's Wordly-Wise listserver delivered daily wordplay
to thousands of subscribers from 1995-2004. Adrian has developed computer
games, including Wordsworth, and the animated head-to-head
trivia game The Brainslider.
Adrian lives in
Elora, Ontario with his wife, Susan, and two children Kate and Matthew.
And
look, he did excellent work on April 26!
