Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, educated at Harvard and St Martin’s College of Art, and worked in New York City for ten years before moving to London permanently in 1989. She worked in publishing, politics, PR and advertising until 2004 when she wrote her first novel, How I Live Now, which won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (UK), the Michael L. Printz Award (US), the Die Zeit Children’s Book of the Year (Germany), and was shortlisted for the Orange First Novel Award. Her second novel, Just in Case, won the 2007 Carnegie Medal.  Her latest book is The Bride’s Farewell (Penguin Books) which was the 2010 YALSA Alex Award winner. Meg lives in London with her husband and daughter. 

Website: megrosoff.co.uk