Andrew Taylor was born in New Zealand and grew up in East Anglia. He studied English Literature at Sheffield University and then teaching at Cambridge. He has spent the last ten years working as a teacher in England, South Korea, Poland and Australia, where he now lives with his partner and their two dogs. Andrew's first book, Meteorite Strike, won the Heart of Hawick Children's Book Award and was also shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize.
