Liz Hyder is an author and a creative workshop leader. She has been part of Writing West Midlands's Room 204 writer-development programme since 2016. Named The Times Children's Boo...view moreLiz Hyder is an author and a creative workshop leader. She has been part of Writing West Midlands's Room 204 writer-development programme since 2016. Named The Times Children's Book of the Year in 2019, her debut, Bearmouth, was also the Waterstones Children's Book for Older Readers 2020 and the winner of the Branford Boase Award 2020. Originally from London, she now lives in South Shropshire in a small medieval market town surrounded by hills, books, and plants.view less