Penelope Todd is already an award-winning author of fiction - the YA Watermark trilogy; Peri, Box and others, Island, Amigas (co-written in English and Spanish) and much-loved memoir Digging For Spain: a Writer's Journey. She has gained residencies at the Iowa International Writing Programme, Chateau de Lavigny in Switzerland, Can Serrat in Spain, Argentina and the Dunedin College of Education. She is publisher at Rosa Mira Books, and works as a freelance editor and literary assessor. In her latest novel Nell, Todd's fine writing brings her grandmother to radiant and vivid life.