Menna van Praag is the author of eight novels. Her first, Men, Money & Chocolate (Hay House, 2009), has sold in twenty-six territories. The Sisters Grimm, the first in a fantasy trilogy (Transworld, 2020) was chosen as fantasy book of the month by The Guardian, calling it “an intensely poetic narrative of empowerment and self-realisation.” Menna worked for the BBC reading and editing scripts for ten years and now teaches creative writing at Cambridge University and will be an RLF fellow in 2021-23. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Menna lives in Cambridge with her partner and two children.