Catherine Fisher is a poet and children’s author who lives in South Wales. A leading fantasy writer, her bestselling books include the Clockwork Crow, The Velvet Fox and The Midnight Swan, Incarceron, the Snow-Walker trilogy, the Oracle trilogy, and the Chronoptika series. She was the first Wales Young People’s Laureate. Catherine has been shortlisted for The Blue Peter Book Award, nominated for the Carnegie Medal and has won the Tir na n'Og Welsh Children's Book Prize with The Clockwork Crow.

‘Full of deep fairytale resonance, Fisher’s writing stands out in the mind’s eye like blood drops on snow.’ Imogen Russell Williams; 'A writer whose own strange magic is impossible to resist.' Daniel Hahn