Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, USA. Before she started writing, Meg worked in publishing, public relations and most recently advertising but thinks the best job in the world would be head gardener for Regents Park. Her first novel, How I Live Now, won the Guardian Award, the Branford Boase Award and was selected by the Daily Mail Book Club. Meg lives in Highbury, North London.

Bestselling author Meg Rosoff has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her first novel How I Live Now (winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize). Her other novels, Just in Case (winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal), The Bride's Farewell and What I Was which was described by The Times as 'Samuel Beckett on ecstasy', are also available from Puffin.