Rachel Churcher is an award-winning author of books for young adults, and author and illustrator of geeky picture books for young children. She is a professional editor, ghostwriter, promoter of East Anglian writers, and co-founder and Director of the Foreword Festival UK. She spent many years working on national and in-house magazines for non-profit organisations, before joyfully opting out of her nine-to-five captivity to write and edit fiction. Rachel lives in Bury St Edmunds, and shares her house with books, plants, and her engineer and inventor husband. She is always happy to meet writers and readers, and talk about YA fiction, dinosaurs, writing, and the merits of various fictional starships.