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  • Jenny Pearson

    Jenny Pearson

    Jenny Pearson is a primary school teacher based in north east England. She loves her job and her debut book, The Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates, about a group of three boys on a make-or-break adventure, draws on many of the children she has taught. Jenny also loves swimming - she w...

  • Jewell Parker Rhodes

    Jewell Parker Rhodes

    Jewell Parker Rhodes grew up in Pennsylvania. She is an author of adult and children's books, a Coretta Scott King Honour award-winner, and a professor of creative writing at Arizona State University. She currently lives in San Jose in the US.

  • Helen Harvey

    Helen Harvey

    Helen grew up in a wild and unruly corner of the internet, where she dodged flames, crafted websites and led a guild of magical wolf-tamers. From a young age she realised that technology gave children superpowers. Besides writing, Helen has had many jobs including building jousting aren...

  • S.M. Wilson

    S.M. Wilson

    S.M. Wilson lives on the west coast of Scotland with her fiance and two sons. Her day job is as a nurse in public health - and her dream job is writing fiction.Her love of YA fiction started as a teenager and has never stopped. She wrote The Extinc...

  • Lindsay Galvin

    Lindsay Galvin

    Lindsay was lucky enough to be raised in a house of stories, music, and love of the sea. She left part of her heart underwater after living and working in Thailand where she spent hundreds of blissful hours scuba diving.Forced now to surface for breath, she lives in sight of the ch...

  • Paul Coomey

    Paul Coomey

    Paul Coomey is an all-round talented writer and illustrator who spends his hours doodling and creating stories.Paul is from Cork, Ireland, and now lives in London. Stick Boy is his debut novel.  

  • Sally Gardner & Lydia Corry

    Sally Gardner & Lydia Corry

    Sally Gardner trained at art college and went on to work in the theatre, winning awards for her costume designs for some notable productions. After her twin daughters and her son were born, she started to illustrate children's books, and then turned to...

  • Alex English

    Alex English

    Alex English is a picture book author, a graduate of the Bath Spa University MA Writing for Young People and a SCBWI volunteer. She currently lives with her family just outside Paris. Sky Pirates: Echo Quickthorn and the Great Beyond is her first middle-grade title and the start of a swashbuck...