Sheena Wilkinson has won many awards for her fiction including five Children's Books Ireland Awards, most recently the Honour Award for Fiction for 2017 Star By Star, which was also shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards.

Described in The Irish Times as 'one of our foremost writers for young people', Sheena received a Major Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 2013.

She teaches creative writing in settings ranging from universities to prisons and runs a young writers' group in Belfast. Sheena lives in County Down where, when she's not writing or reading, she's either singing or walking in the forest - sometimes at the same time.