Lili Wilkinson

Lili Wilkinson is the author of over a dozen books for children and young adults, including the YA novels The Boundless Sublime, After the Lights Go Out, The Erasure Initiative, A Hunger of Thorns, Deep is the Fen, Unhallowed Halls, and Lavender and Hemlock. As L.M. Wilkinson, she is the author of Bravepaw quartet of middle grade novels illustrated by Lavanya Naidu. Her new middle grade series, Survive the Story, is co-written with Amie Kaufman and will be published by Little, Brown and Allen & Unwin. She helped establish InsideADog.com.au and The Inky Awards — Australia’s first national teen choice award — at the State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature. She received her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne, and lives in Melbourne with her husband and son.