Hiba Noor Khan

Christina grew up in the UK. She loves the natural world and believes that stories, much like the roots of an ancient forest, are capable of connecting readers and listeners in essential ways. WILDOAK is her first book. She graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature and has since worked at a national newspaper, taught literacy to children with learning differences and studied printmaking. She now lives in Maryland with her family and a dog who loves to eat manuscripts.

Alake writes from small, magical islands in the Caribbean, where people are connected to Africa, India, China, the Americas, Western and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, thanks to the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship, and is a graduate of New York University and Bates College in Maine.

Born in Co. Wexford, Ireland, Serena worked in schools around the UK and Ireland as an English teacher. She now lives with her family in a small village outside Galway City where she can see the sea every day. As a mum of four, her house is always noisy but never, ever dull.

As a child with dyslexia, an inspirational teacher changed her life. Her novels are a celebration of neurodiversity, empathy and the power to change.