ABI ELPHINSTONE grew up in Scotland, where she spent most of her childhood running wild across the moors, hiding in tree houses, and building dens in the woods. After being coaxed out of her tree houses, she studied English at Bristol University and then worked as an English teacher in Tanzania before returning to the United Kingdom to teach there. She is the bestselling and award-shortlisted author of Casper Tock and the Everdark Wings (the first book in the Unmapped Chronicles series), Sky Song, and the Dreamsnatcher trilogy. When she’s not writing, Abi volunteers for the Coram Beanstalk charity, speaks in schools, and travels the world looking for her next story. Her latest adventures include living with the Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia and dogsledding across the Arctic.