Marcus Sedgwick is the bestselling author of over 40 books for adults and young people, including Midwinterblood and The Monsters We Deserve. He has won multiple prestigious awards, including the Michael L. Printz Award, the Branford Boase Award, the BookTrust Teenage Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award, and has been shortlisted for over 40 others, including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Marcus has been announced as one of the two UK nominations for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award.