Leila Rasheed has gained an MA in both Children's Literature and Creative Writing. She started work at Reading Is Fundamental, a children's literacy charity, before moving to Belgium. Leila now works as the children's bookseller for Waterstone's in Brussels.
I know and appreciate this writer, and although I am not the audience for this -- more for British girls of 12 or so -- the writing, sense fun and imagining are all top-notch.