Nicola Davies is the author of more than 90 books for children and young people, including poetry, picture books and novels. In addition to many books about the natural world Nicola has written about disability, grief, human migration and children’s rights. Her work has been published in more than 12 different languages and won awards in the UK and abroad. Her recent YA novels the Song that Sings Us and Skrimsli have both been nominated for the Yoto Carniege Award for Writing in their respective years of publication. Skrimsli won the children and young people’s category of the Wales Book of the Year in 2024 and her poetry collection ‘Choose Love’ was shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Award for Writing 2024. She has worked with children and adults helping them to find their voices as writers for over 25 years, and regularly runs writing and illustration workshops for children in schools
