Meet the author

Tamsin Winter.

Writer · United Kingdom

A British writer of warm, honest fiction about the pressures of growing up, whose award-winning Being Miss Nobody gives thoughtful readers a genuine window into anxiety, bullying and finding your voice.

Tamsin Winter is a British writer of fresh, funny and moving fiction for older children and teenagers, who grew up in a Northamptonshire village, studied English and creative writing, and taught secondary English for many years. Her award-winning debut, Being Miss Nobody, follows Rosalind, a girl with selective mutism who pours everything she cannot say into an anonymous blog, and handles anxiety, cyberbullying and finding your voice with warmth, honesty and flashes of humour. It won the Awesome Book Award and several others, and her later novels, Jemima Small Versus the Universe, Girl (in Real Life) and I Dare You, have been Carnegie-nominated and prize-winning in turn. Winter writes unforgettable narrators and genuinely useful windows into hidden experiences, ideal for thoughtful readers making the jump to secondary school.