Born in 1963, Bruce Ingman is a British picture-book author and illustrator. He was born in Liverpool, and studied fine art at Nottingham Trent University and illustration at the Royal College of Art, London. He has taught at a number of art colleges and has illustrated for magazines, including British Vogue and The Sunday Times. He published his first book, When Martha's Away, in 1995, and has gone on to illustrate a number of other authors' books, including multiple titles from the celebrated Allan Ahlberg. Ingman regularly gives talks and workshops in schools, theatres and at literary festivals, including Cheltenham, Edinburgh and Oxford, and he is a founding Ambassador for the House of Illustration, the world’s first dedicated home for the art of illustration.