She won the inaugural children's poetry prize organised by The Caterpillar (2015) and has been joint winner of the Manchester Writing for Children Prize. She was also a runner-up in the Chicken House Publishing `Big Idea' competition in 2014. When she's not writing poetry or stories for children, she is the director of a dogs home. Ashling Lindsay is an illustrator and animation director from Belfast. She was shortlisted for the AOI Illustration Awards two years running (2013 & 2014) and was also shortlisted for the AOI Serco prize for illustration (2015). The Night Box will be their first picture book.