Polly Ho-Yen is an English author.
Biography Ho-Yen was born in Northampton and grew up in Buckinghamshire. She studied English at the University of Birmingham and worked both in publishing and as a primary school teacher.
Her debut novel, The Boy In The Tower (2014), was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award, the Federation of Children's Book Groups Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.
Her first adult novel, Dark Lullaby, was published in 2021.
Ho-Yen is based in Bristol, where she set up the Bristol Teen Book Award for Bristol secondary schools.
Published works
For Children Title Year The Boy In The Tower 2014 Where Monsters Lie 2016 Fly Me Home 2017 Two Sides (Illustrated by Binny Talib) 2019 My Other Life 2020 How I Saved The World In A Week 2021 The Boy Who Grew a Tree 2022 The Day No One Woke Up 2022 The Last Dragon 2024
Short stories Title Year Publisher From The theater of dreams 2023 Farshore Read, Scream, Repeat Various Authors (Compiled by Jennifer Killick)
For adults Title Year Dark Lullaby 2021
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