Authors Schools & Libraries
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Nikita Gill
Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a world-wide fan-base of over 650,000 Instagram followers. Her poetry collections and plays offer a largely female readership the chance to recognise the value of their own experiences. Gill has written seven collections of poetry, and...
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Yaba Badoe and Joelle Avelino
Yaba Badoe is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and author. Yaba was born in Ghana but now lives in London with her husband. Her children's novels A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars, Wolf Light and Lionheart Girl are published by Zephyr. Yaba is a judge for the Jhalak Prize 2023...
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Dashe Roberts
Dashe Roberts has spent most of her life living on either coast of the US. After several years working in the New York theatre scene, she moved back home to California and began writing her first book, Sticky Pines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy. Dashe has since moved to London, where she lives with...
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell, bestselling children's author, has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. She grew up in Africa and Europe before studying at the University of Oxford, becoming a Fellow of All Souls College....
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PA Staff
PA Staff is a science communicator and vet by day, writer by night. Born and living in Norfolk, she spent her childhood growing up with an unknown and unexplainable movement condition, known as Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Choreoathestosis. She created Casander Darkbloom to tackle the univers...
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Clare Helen Welsh & Ana Sanfelippo
Clare Helen Welsh is a primary school teacher and children's author who lives in South West England with her husband and two children. Clare does her best writing by the sea, which is lucky because she lives close to many beautiful beaches and the salty sea air. She is passio...
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Sally Anne Garland
Sally Anne Garland grew up in the Highlands of Scotland. According to her parents, her first really good drawing, aged four, was a large mural in crayon on the sitting-room wall... After graduating from Edinburgh College Of Art, Sally Anne Garland worked for a many years as an in-house...
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Deborah Chancellor
Deborah Chancellor has written over a hundred books for children, from toddlers to teenagers. She has tackled a broad range of subjects, both in fiction and non-fiction. A keen walker with a healthy appetite for good food, Deborah lives in rural Essex with her husband, their dog, small grandso...
