Wendy Meddour

Dr Wendy Meddour is the Director of Creative Writing at Exeter University, UK; and after gaining her PhD, she spent 8 years teaching English Literature at Oxford University. Her debut children's book was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award for 'Outstanding first novel', and she has gone onto publish over 15 children's books with leading publishers (many of which have been translated into languages as diverse as Arabic, Hebrew, German, Korean, Turkish, Spanish, Greek and Russian). Winner of the International Margaret Wise Brown Award for Children's Literature in 2020, Wendy's most recent books include 'Lubna and Pebble' and 'The Friendship Bench'. Wendy is known for writing children's books that address difficult topics in a thoughtful, heartwarming and uplifting manner. Forthcoming picture books include: 'Peggy the Always Sorry Pigeon’, ‘Cleo the Completely Fine Camel’ and ‘Sunny and the Birds’.