Welsh novelist and poet Catherine Fisher, graduated with an English degree and is fascinated with myth and history. Catherine has worked in education and archaeology, as well as a creative writing lecturer at the University of Glamorgan. She also gives readings to mixed age groups, carries out sessions for teachers and librarians, is a broadcaster and an adjudicator.

Catherine Fisher’s work has won awards including the WAC Young Writers' Prize and her volume ‘Immrama’ won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 1990. Her poetry has been featured in leading periodicals and anthologies. Her first novel, ‘The Conjuror's Game’, was shortlisted for the Smarties Books prize and ‘The Snow-Walker's Son’ for the W.H.Smith Award.

‘The Oracle’, the first volume in the Oracle trilogy, combines Egyptian and Greek aspects of magic and adventure and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Books prize. The trilogy was an international bestseller and has appeared in over twenty languages. ‘The Candleman’ won the Welsh Books Council's Tir Na n'Og Prize.

Her futuristic novel ‘Incarceron’ was a great success and won the Mythopoeic Society of America's Children's Fiction Award and featured by The Times as its Children's Book of the Year. The sequel, Sapphique, was published a year after in September 2008.   

Other titles by Catherine Fisher include. ‘The Lammas Field’, ‘The Weather Dress’ and ‘Belin’s Hill’. A story ‘Becoming Merlin’, can be seen on the BBC website. Her latest book ‘Crowns of Acorn’, is due for release in May 2010.

For more information visit www.catherine-fisher.com