Oisín McGann was born in Dublin in 1973 and spent his childhood there and in Drogheda, County Louth. He started writing and illustrating stories in exercise books when he was about six years-old, setting him in on a path that would ensure he would never hold down a proper job. He studied art and graphics at Ballyfermot Senior College and classical animation at Dun Laoghaire School of Art and Design, and went on to work in illustration, design and film animation, later moving to London to work as an art director and copy writer in advertising. He has since become one of Ireland’s most prolific and best-known writer-illustrators, and has produced dozens of books for all levels of reader in a range of genres and illustration styles, including thirteen novels and numerous short stories, with publishers such as Penguin Random House, the O’Brien Press, HarperCollins, Tor, Walker Books, Little Island, Barrington Stoke, Franklin Watts, Oxford University Press, Orchard Books and Open Road Media. He is a winner of the European Science Fiction Society Award, Children’s Books Ireland’s Children’s Choice Award and has been shortlisted for numerous other awards, including the Waterstones Childrens’ Book Prize in the UK, le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in France and Locus Magazine's Best First Novel Award in the US. He is married with three children, two dogs and a cat, and resides somewhere in the Irish countryside where, despite having taken part in thousands of book events, he still lives in hope of becoming a reclusive author.
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