Steve Tasane, whose debut novel Blood Donors was selected as one of the top 50 Diverse Voices in children's books, is a performance poet who has performed at Glastonbury, St Paul's Cathedral and the National Gallery, been writer in residence at the V&A Museum of Childhood and the Dickens Birthplace Museum, and been broadcast on TV and radio.
He says, "Everything I've learnt in life - about People and Animals and Love and Hate - goes into what I write." He lives in Hastings, East Sussex.
For more about Steve, visit stevetasane.wordpress.com or follow him on Twitter @stevetasane