Author Information:

Vanessa Curtis is the award-winning author of YA novels including Zelah Green (winner of Manchester Children's Book Award/shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize) and The Earth is Singing (longlisted for the Carnegie, winner of the Young Quills Award). Her journalism and book reviews have appeared in the Times, TLS, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Independent, Guardian, Telegraph, Herald and Scotland on Sunday newspapers and she runs her own literary consultancy as well as consulting for Cornerstones.