Patrice Lawrence

Patrice Lawrence (Author)
Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer. Her debut YA novel, Orangeboy, won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children's Fiction and was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award. Her subsequent novels have been much acclaimed and frequent visitors to prize lists. Patrice was awarded an MBE for Services to Literature in the Queen's Birthday Honors 2021.Patrice was born in Brighton, raised in an Italian-Trinidadian family in mid-Sussex, and now lives on the South Coast of England.

Camilla Sucre (Illustrator)
Camilla Sucre, a Trinidadian American artist who resides in Baltimore, has found a different kind of home in narrative illustration. Interested in illustration since she was a child, her dreams are finally coming true! Camilla has a passion for movies and hopes she can one day express that in her work. Her favorite movie is currently The Red Shoes, an old movie--which is very fitting because she loves old things!