Briony May Smith graduated from Falmouth University with a First Class degree in Illustration. Since then, she has been shortlisted for the British Comic Awards and has twice been highly commended for the Macmillan Children’s Prize. She is the author-illustrator of Imelda and the Goblin King, and the illustrator of The Giant’s Necklace, written by Michael Morpurgo, and Tooth Fairy in Training, written by Michelle Robinson. She is inspired by traditional fairy tales and folklore, and by the farm she lives on.