Polly Horvath is an American-Canadian author known for her novels for children and young adults. She was born on January 30, 1957, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Horvath's most acclaimed work is The Canning Season, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, which won the 2003 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature. In 2010, she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, further establishing her reputation in the field of children's literature.