Short Bio: Maisie Chan is a multi-award-winning author. She won the Jhalak Prize and Branford Boase with her debut children's novel Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths. Her new novel Nate Yu's Blast From the Past is one of the Best Children's Chapter Books for the Summer (The Observer) and The Week Junior Book of the Week. She writes a young fiction series called Tiger Warrior and has written for the best selling anthology The Very Merry Murder Club. She lives in Glasgow with her family and dog. 

Long Bio: Maisie Chan is children's author whose debut novel Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths won the Jhalak Prize and the Branford Boase Award in 2022. Her second novel Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu was longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2023 and made the Best Middlegrade Books of 2023 list by Kirkus. Her latest novel Nate Yu's Blast From the Past is a Scottish Book Trust: Book of the Month, one of the 'Best Children's Chapter Books for the Summer' according to The Observer and The Week Junior: Book of the Week. She also writes the series Tiger Warrior. She has written early readers for Hachette and Big Cat Collins, and has a collection of myths and legends out with Scholastic. Maisie is one of the authors in best selling The Very Merry Murder Club anthology which is edited by Robin Stevens and Serena Patel. She runs the Bubble Tea Writers Network to support and encourage writers of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) descent in the U.K. Maisie is a Chinese Brummie, but now lives in Glasgow with her family and dog.