Lucy Christopher is an award-winning, best-selling author for young adults, children, and adults, with wide readership; her books are published in over 20 countries, selling over 250,000 copies. She has won many international awards, including the Printz Honor Award, Branford Boase, Prix Farniente, Golden Inky, and an International Reading Association Award. Release, her debut psychological thriller for adults, was shortlisted for a Davitt award and is currently in development for a TV series. Her writing centres around questions of empathy, psychology, the environment, and concepts of the wild. She has facilitated hundreds of writing visits, workshops and courses all over the world, including leading residential retreats for Arvon Foundation, Ty Newydd Writing Centre, Moniack Mhor, and for her own Mexican Writing Retreats.  She has been a writer-in-residence for The Literature Centre, Art Farm, in a Bath Bookshop, and in a glass shipping container as part of Hobart’s InsideOUT project. She has also worked as an academic in Creative Writing for twenty years, beginning her career at Bath Spa University, where she was a Reader in Creative Writing and Course Director on the world-renowned MA in Writing for Young People. She now works as Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Tasmania, while juggling her best creative output yet: her daughter.