April dela Noche Milne is a mixed Filipino-Canadian author-illustrator based in Vancouver. Her work explores grief and memory, the humour of everyday narratives, and issues of identity. The illustrator for the middle-grade graphic novel The Blue Road: A fable of migration, and contributor to the comic anthology The Witching Hours, her work has appeared in The Globe & Mail and Chatelaine. She is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. April’s debut picture book as author and illustrator, Nora At Night, is forthcoming Fall 2026 with Kids Can Press.
