Polly Ho-Yen used to be a primary school teacher in London and while she was teaching there, she would get up very early in the morning to write stories. She lives in Bristol with her husband and daughter. Polly has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, Blue Peter Book Award, and the Federation of Children’s Book Groups Book Award for her debut The Boy in the Tower (Penguin Random House Children’s). Knights Of have previously published Polly’s younger fiction novels, The Boy Who Grew a Tree and The Girl Who Became a Fish.