About Me
This is a photo of me when I was around seven. I had no clue back then that I would become an author. I lived in a council house and we didn't have many books at home, but my mom did take me to the library. My dad worked in a chocolate factory (yes, just like an Oompa Lumpa) and my mom was a foster carer and worked in a Chinese takeaway. I'm adopted. A lot of my experiences have made me a very strong person, but I didn't feel strong when I was a child. I was terribly shy. Now I speak to rooms full of people all the time. Being a children's author is the best job I've ever had! I give it two thumbs up!
Press Kit
Here you will find biographies and headshots to download. Book covers can be found in the BOOKS section.
Biographies
Short Bio: Maisie Chan is a multi-award-winning author. She won the Jhalak Prize and Branford Boase with her debut children's novel Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths in 2022. She writes a young fiction series called Tiger Warrior and has written for the best selling anthology The Very Merry Murder Club. She lives in Glasgow with her family and dog.
Long Bio: Maisie Chan is children's author whose debut novel Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths won the Jhalak Prize and the Branford Boase Award in 2022. Her second novel Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu was longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2023 and made the Best Middlegrade Books of 2023 list by Kirkus. She also writes the series Tiger Warrior. She has written early readers for Hachette and Big Cat Collins, and has a collection of myths and legends out with Scholastic. Maisie is one of the authors in best selling The Very Merry Murder Club anthology which is edited by Robin Stevens and Serena Patel. She runs the Bubble Tea Writers Network to support and encourage writers of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) descent in the U.K. She has a dog called Miko. Maisie is from Birmingham, but now lives in Glasgow with her family.
headshots of Maisie Chan (click the photo to download)
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Photo credit: Maisie Chan
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