Vanessa Curtis is an award-winning author of books for teens and children, including Zelah Green which won the Manchester Children's Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and The Earth is Singing, winner of the Young Quills Historical Association Award, shortlisted for Peters Books of the Year Award and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. She was also one of the co-founders of The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and is the author of two biographies on Virginia Woolf. Vanessa also reviews books for the national newspapers and runs The Curtis Children's Literary Consultancy, specialising in YA fiction.