Sue Mayfield is a writer for children and adults based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Sue won the 2002 North East Book Award for her novel Blue (Hodder Bite) and the 2005 Heartlands Award for Young Adult Fiction for Drowning Anna, the American version of the same book. In 2011 Un an après (the French version of Damage) won the Prix Polar de Jeunesse in France. Her most recent books are Living With Bereavement (2008), First Steps Through Bereavement (2011) and Under the Sea (2012), all published by Lion.

Trained as a teacher, Sue Mayfield has been a regular visitor to schools since the early 1990s, reading from her work and leading writing workshops. She has taught as an Adult Education and WEA tutor and facilitated other people’s writing in community venues including hospitals and museums.

During 2015 she is Writer-in-Residence at Southmead Hospital, Bristol.