I'm half Polish and half English, and I live in Surrey, England. I started out writing plays for radio, but I've since had a go at most things. I've won prizes for short stories and poetry, and my most recent publication is Ice Feathers, which is set in prehistoric Antarctica and is about a teenage who runs away from home to escape an arranged marriage. I'm best known the Divide Trilogy, published by Scholastic. I've also written books for struggling readers, such as Fury, in which the Erinnyes, the ancient Greek goddesses of vengeance, find a route into our world through a crack in an old pot. I think I'd list travelling to obscure destinations and trying not to get eaten by the local wildlife as my main hobbies.