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Raissa Figueroa
Raissa Figueroa lives and works in sunny San Diego, California. She’s the illustrator for several other children’s books, including The More the Merrier, written by David Martin. You can visit her at rizzyfig.com.
James Frey
James Frey is originally from Cleveland. He is the author of the bestselling novels, A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard. He lives in New York.
Maggie Fergusson
Maggie Fergusson is Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature and Literary Editor of Intelligent Life. Her first book, George Mackay Brown: The Life, won the Saltire First Book Prize, the Marsh Biography Award, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Biography Award.
Aisling Fowler
Aisling Fowler wishes that she had grown up in a magical, mountainous kingdom, but was actually raised in Surrey on a diet of books and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After earning a BSc in Biology and working as a support worker and then a nurse, the idea for FIREBORN came to her as she moved back and forth between London and the US.
When she is not reading or writing, Aisling loves cooking and plotting adventures (for herself as well as her fictional characters).
John Foster
John Foster is a well-known anthologist and poet and has compiled several wonderful collections – WHAM BANG ORANGUTANG being one of the best known (OUP), and he wrote the poem of the title. He travels extensively to help promote his books.