Meet the author

Ross Montgomery.

Writer · United Kingdom

Ross Montgomery: author of the award-winning I Am Rebel, whose fast, folklore-steeped adventures wrap inventive magic around big, beating hearts.

Ross Montgomery is a British children's author, born in Berkshire and a former primary-school teacher, whose fast, funny and emotionally true adventures have made him a firm favourite with readers of eight and up. The Chime Seekers plunges a resentful boy into a nightmarish fae otherworld to win back his stolen baby sister; Spellstone turns an overlooked, near-invisible girl into the unlikely keeper of a great magic; and I Am Rebel, told entirely from the point of view of a loyal farm dog crossing a war-torn land to save his human, won both the Waterstones Children's Book of the Year and the FCBG Children's Book Award. Montgomery builds inventive, folklore-steeped worlds around big beating hearts, reassuring quiet and overlooked children that their quietness might just be the thing that saves the day.