Sita Brahmachari, is a writer of children’s and young adult fiction and was the winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize (2011). She was Book Trust’s Writer in Residence (2015) and received the UK International Honour for Writing from IBBY (2018). Her multiple award-winning work has been endorsed by Amnesty International, and nominated seven times for the Carnegie Medal (Shortlist 2023). Sita is an associate lecturer in Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths University and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.