Liz Hyder

Hyder was born in London. She attended the University of Bristol where she studied drama. She has previously worked as a publicist for the BBC and was a freelance PR consultant.^[1]

Her debut novel, Bearmouth, was published by Pushkin Children’s Books in 2019 and aimed towards young adults. It is about a child called Newt who lives and works in a Victorian coalmine. It won the 2020 Branford Boase Award^[2] and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for older readers.^[3] She published her second novel, The Gifts, in 2022 which is aimed towards adults. It is centered around four women and set in the Victorian era.^[4] In her 2024 young adult novel The Twelve, the search for a missing sister takes two young people into a dangerous world of Welsh folklore and magic. It won the 2025 English-language Tir na n-Og Award.^[5]