Joanna Nadin

Dr Joanna Nadin is a former broadcast journalist, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister and government speechwriter. Since leaving politics she's authored more than 90 books for children, teenagers and adults, including the UK bestselling Worst Class in the World series, the Carnegie Medal-nominated Joe All Alone, which is now a BAFTA-winning BBC drama, and Penny Dreadful is Magnet for Disaster, which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.

She's a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol, where her research centres on class, identity and the formation of self in fiction, as well as books for younger children celebrating curiosity and non-conformity, often through the device of comedy. She's on the editorial board of Leaf Journal on Writing for Young People.