Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning poet, playwright, and bestselling novelist. Her debut novel for children The Girl of Ink & Stars won the Waterstones Children s Book Prize, and the British Book Awards Children s Book of the Year. Her work has been short- and long-listed for other major prizes including the Costa Award, and the CILIP Carnegie Award. The Deathless Girls is her first novel for Young Adults. She s a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and lives by the river in Oxford with her husband and cat.