Shannon Park was born in New Zealand and moved to London to complete a Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing at the London University of the Arts. Since then she has worked on the Primary Literacy list at Collins Education and at Random House Children’s Books as a Commissioning Editor. Shannon is now Senior Fiction Editor for Puffin. She is also co-chair of the Children’s Book Circle, a London-based discussion forum for people involved in the children’s publishing industry. She has worked with a diverse range of authors, including Jeremy Strong, Anthony McGowan, Lucy and Stephen Hawking and Bali Rai.

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