Helen Dunmore is a freelance writer of fiction and poetry for both adults and children, including In the Money (Julia MacRae/Red Fox), Going to Egypt (Julia MacRae/Red Fox) and Amima's Blanket (Banana Books, Heinemann). Her titles for adults have won her several literary prizes and awards, including the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, the Cardiff International Poetry Prize, The Signal Award for Secrets and the Orange Prize for A Spell of Winte . Her other adult novels include Zennor in Darkness, Burning Bright and Talking to the Dead. She has wide experience as a writer in schools, libraries etc., working with schemes such as the Poetry Society's Poets-in-Schools, and independently.

Author lives: Bristol