Erika McGann grew up in Drogheda, County Louth, and now lives in Dublin. She is the author of The Demon Notebook, winner of the Waverton Good Read Children’s Award, The Broken Spell, The Watching Wood and The Midnight Carnival, the ‘Cass and the Bubble Street Gang’ series, Tabitha Plimtock and the Edge of the World and The Strange Tale of Barnabus Kwerk. She has also written thirteen picture books, including the bestselling ‘Puffling’ series, illustrated by Ger Daly; Run Home, Little Fox, winner of Children’s Book of the Year (Junior) at the Irish Book Awards, and its follow-up Swim, Little Otter with Tom McCaughren and illustrated by Shannon Bergin; and Nowhere for a Ghost to Sleep, illustrated by Clive McFarland.