Kevin Crossley-Holland is a poet, translator from Anglo-Saxon (including Beowulf), reteller of traditional tale (The Penguin Book of Norse Myths and Between Worlds: British Folk Tales), librettist and, as novelist for children, author of the Arthur trilogy and winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Fiction Prize.  He has collaborated with many composers and artists including Bliss, Mathias, LeFanu, Bob Chilcott and Cecilia McDowall, and Keeping, Lawrence, Norman Ackroyd and Chris Riddell. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was a  Visiting Fulbright Scholar and endowed chair in the humanities in Minnesota from 1991 until 1996, and served as President of the School Library Association 2012-2017.  He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Anglia Ruskin and the University of Worcester and is an Honorary Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.  He lives in north Norfolk.

Recent and forthcoming: New Leaves on an Old Tree: A Writer’s Portfolio (2023) and Collected Poems (2024).