Bren MacDibble was raised on farms all over New Zealand, so is an expert about being a kid on the land. After twenty years living and working in Melbourne, Bren sold everything, and spent two years in a bus travelling around Australia. She recently parked her bus in Kalbarri on the beautiful west coast. In 2018, How to Bee – her first novel for younger readers – won the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers, the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award: Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature, and the New Zealand Book Awards: Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction. In 2019, The Dog Runner won the New Zealand Book Awards: Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction. Bren also writes for young adults under the name Cally Black.