Libby Whittaker is a New Zealand doctor and writer. After growing up on the beautiful Whangaparāoa Peninsula in northern Auckland, she now lives and works in Ōtepōti (Dunedin). Libby loves writing stories for children, and her debut junior fiction novel Sunny Turner and the Deadly Bite was a finalist in the 2015 Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Eye Spyclops is her first children's picture book.