Karolyn Smardz Frost is an archaeologist, historian, and award-winning author. Now an adjunct professor at Acadia and Dalhousie, she is the former bicentennial visiting professor at Yale University and served as senior research fellow for African Canadian History at York University’s Harriet Tubman Institute. Her biography of freedom-seekers Lucie and Thornton Blackburn, I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of The Underground Railroad, won the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. She co-edited The Archaeology Education Handbook: Sharing the Past with Kids; Ontario’s African-Canadian Past; and the landmark Canada–U.S. collaborative volume, A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland. Karolyn’s most recent book is the award-winning Steal Away Home, which tells the tale of fifteen-year-old Cecelia Jane Reynolds who arranged her own flight to freedom and found a new home in Toronto. She lives in Nova Scotia’s beautiful Annapolis Valley.