(born in 1978) writer, painter and sculptor, the winner of the IBBY award 2015 for Best Young Adult Book for the novel 5 seconds to Io.

Twice nominated for the main award of the Festival of Women’s Literature, in 2013 she won the award for a novel about exclusion. Her published works include: No One Saw, No One Heard; The Little Girl Who Saw Too Much and The City of Ice. She has also written lyrics for songs by the band Farba.