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  • Kalynn Bayron

    Kalynn Bayron

    Kalynn Bayron is a debut author and a classically trained vocalist. She grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. When she's not writing, you can find her listening to Ella Fitzgerald on loop, goingto the theatre, watching scary movies and spending time with her kids. She currently liv...

  • Karen Foxlee

    Karen Foxlee

    LENNY'S BOOK OF EVERYTHING PUSHKIN CHILDREN'S BOOKS MAY 2019 LENNY'S BOOK OF EVERYTHING is Lenny's account of her childhood and growing up with her younger brother, Davey, who has a condition that makes him grow too quickly. Their childhood landscape of games, carers...

  • Kat Falls

    Kat Falls

    Kat Falls grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and studied Science at university. She now teaches at NU, where she is continually inspired by her students' creativity. She started writing Dark Life as a writing exercise. Knowing that her 12-year-old son loved reading about the oce...

  • Kate Cann

    Kate Cann

    Kate Cann has always enjoyed stories and writing but did not plan on becoming an author. After completing two degrees at Kent University, in English and American Studies, she started working for a publisher as a copy-editor, going freelance after the birth of her two children. It was wh...

  • Kate DiCamillo

    Kate DiCamillo

    Kate DiCamillo is the author of the 2004 Newbery Medal-winning The Tale of Despereaux and Because of Winn-Dixie, which was recently made into a film. A writer of extraordinary lyricism and depth, Kate didn't begin writing until she was thirty years old, when she had an epiphany. "I wanted to t...

  • Kate Hindley

    Kate Hindley

    Children's books illustrator Kate Hindley lives and works in Birmingham (near the chocolate factory). She studied illustration at Falmouth College of Art, graduating in 2008, and went on to work for two years as a children's print designer at a studio in Northampton, whilst working freelance o...

  • Kate le Vann

    Kate le Vann

    Kate le Vann was born and brought up in Doncaster. After completing a law degree at Manchester University, she moved to London, where she got a job with The Modern Review, then wrote freelance while working in the Daily Telegraph clippings library. Kate has written for newspapers and mag...

  • Kate O'Hearn

    Kate O'Hearn

    Kate O'Hearn was raised in the heart of New York City. As a child walking down 5th Avenue, she would envision herself soaring among the city's canyons on the back of a wild dragon. While in Florida, looking over the sea, she could imagine living amongst the whales and beaching in the heavy swe...