Kierin Meehan

Kierin Meehan grew up in Brisbane, Australia, in a house full of books and interesting older sisters. As a child she was mad on ballet, wrote murder mysteries, and ran a dodgy detective agency with her two best friends. She likes to read, walk and swim, and is fascinated by anything Japanese.

Her novel Hannah's Winter was originally published in Australia by Penguin in 2001 and then in North America by Kane Miller in 2009, where it was on the USBBY outstanding international booklist and a Voya top shelf read. Night Singing and In the Monkey Forest both won Patricia Wrightson prizes in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards (Australia).