Sherie Posesorski is a Toronto writer and editor, and her first children's novel Escape Plans was published by Coteau Books in 2001 and was a Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice" selection. Shadow Boxing, a YA novel, published in 2009 year, was chosen as an Honor Book for the 2010 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, was included on Resource Links 2009 Best Books list, and was short-listed for the Stellar Award. Her second YA novel, Old Photographs, was published in 2010. Sherie's book reviews have appeared in various newspapers including The New York Times Book Review, Vancouver Sun, National Post and The Globe & Mail.My new book, The Minsk Express, grew out of my ambivalent, guilty feelings (and the even more ambivalent response of my parents fed by the condemnation of relatives) about my love of all things Christmas and my desperately determined efforts to have my family to celebrate Christmas though we were Jewish.It also grew out of my feelings as a child about change--how I wanted everyone and everything I loved to stay just as they were, and how comforting, reassuring and pleasurable the familiar was, and nerve-wracking and scary the land of the new and different appeared to be. And so came about the story of Becky and her guilty love of Christmas.