Máire Zepf is from County Down and has written eleven books for children, from picture books to YA verse-novels. She was the first Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland, based at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. She is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed children’s writers and has won many awards: a KPMG Children’s Book of the Year, two Children’s Book Awards from the Literacy Association of Ireland, an IBBY Honour Award and two Oireachtas Awards for Fiction.
