Jesse Blackadder is an awarding-winning journalist, writer, screenwriter and public speaker. With a PhD in Creative Arts, she also leads StoryBoard, who teach creative writing to 3500 young people per year. Her writing fellowships have taken her to Antarctica, Alaska and outback Australia. She has written four adult novels, Sixty Seconds | In the Blink of An Eye (USA), Chasing The Light, The Raven’s Heart, After The Party and three junior novels featuring a koala, brumby horses and an Antarctic dog. Her latest work is co-written YA series, Dream Riders.