Jessica Townsend

Jessica Townsend is an Australian author, born in 1985. Her career includes working as a copywriter and an editor of a children's wildlife magazine. Nevermore: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (2017) is her first novel. It was a winner in several categories of the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year, Book of the year for younger children (ages 7-13), and the Matt Richell Award for new writer of the year. It also won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers Choice Award 2018.