Sophie is a children’s writer and librarian with a degree in Zoology and an interest in folklore. Her short stories have been highly commended for the Bridport Prize 2012, longlisted for BBC Opening Lines in 2013 and 2015 and won second prize in Words with Jam in 2014.

Sophie’s first novel, The Last Giant, was shortlisted for the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition in 2011 and her second, Potkin and Stubbs, was shortlisted for the 2016 Bath Children’s Novel Award.