Colleen Nelson

Colleen Nelson writes Canadian fiction for younger audiences and teaches, often placing friendship and responsibility inside urgent social questions. Pulse Point was written with Nancy Chappell-Pollack and released by the Yellow Dog imprint of Great Plains Publications in 2018. Kaia leaves the protected city of Winnipeg in search of her missing friend within a future shaped by environmental collapse. The book is teen dystopian eco-fiction for readers aged twelve to fifteen and was a Forest of Reading 2018 Teen Committee Summer Reading pick. Nelson’s collaboration with Chappell-Pollack defines the book’s identity, as does its connection between personal loyalty and the unequal conditions outside the city. Her wider bibliography includes middle-grade and teen novels, many informed by her experience as a classroom teacher. Pulse Point combines that interest in young people’s choices with a speculative setting built around scarcity, borders, and environmental consequence.