Lili Wilkinson

Lili Wilkinson is the author of over a dozen books for children and young adults, including the YA novels The Boundless Sublime, After the Lights Go Out, and The Erasure Initiative. Her latest YA novels, A Hunger of Thorns and Deep is the Fen, were published by Delacorte in Spring 2023 and 2024, respectively. As L.M. Wilkinson, she is the author of Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria, the first in a new middle grade series illustrated by Lavanya Naidu. She helped establish InsideADog.com.au and The Inky Awards — Australia’s first national teen choice award — at the State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature. She received her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne, and lives in Melbourne with her husband and son.