Born in Indonesia of French parents, Sophie Masson was sent to France to live with her grandmother when she was a baby and came to Australia with her family when she was five. Educated in Sydney, she also spent a good deal of her childhood in France, as the family often went back. A dedicated bookworm as a kid, Sophie also loved writing stories to entertain herself and her younger sisters and brothers.
Now the author of more than fifty novels for young people, Sophie is published in many different countries. She lives in rural New South Wales with her husband, and has three grown-up children.