Maisie Chan

Maisie Chan is a children’s author whose debut novel Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths (Piccadilly Press) won the Jhalak Children’s and YA Prize and the Branford Boase Award in 2022. The book was also shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2022. It has also been longlisted for the Diversity Book Awards, the Tower Hamlet Book Awards, the Spark Book Awards, the Redbridge Award and the Big Book Award. It was also picked by the Guardian as a Book of the Month pick in 2021. Her latest novel Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu is out now with Piccadilly Press. She also writes the series Tiger Warrior under the name M. Chan. She has written early readers for Hachette and Big Cat Collins, and has a collection of myths and legends out with Scholastic.

Maisie runs the Bubble Tea Writers Network to support and encourage writers of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) descent in the U.K. She has mentored writers for Megaphone, WriteMentor and Diverse Voices (U.S.) and has worked with children and young people leading creative writing workshops, as well as sessions for Arvon and Scottish Book Trust for writers.