Shivaun Plozza is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults. Her debut, Frankie, was shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year (older readers) and won a number of awards, including the Davitt Awards and a commendation from the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Her second novel, Tin Heart, sold in five foreign territories, received two starred reviews, and was nominated to ALA’S Best Fiction for Young Adults list. She has published two middle grade fantasy books, The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars, and A Reluctant Witch’s Guide to Magic. Her first contemporary middle grade novel, Meet Me at the Moon Tree, is forthcoming in 2023. When she is not writing she works as an editor and manuscript assessor.