Award-winning Australian author Sue Lawson writes books for children and young adults. Her books include picture book, The Biscuit Maker, illustrated by Liz Anelli, and young adult novels Freedom Ride, shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year and the NSW and WA Premiers’ Literary Awards, and Pan’s Whisper, which won the Australian Family Therapist Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award.

Sue also collaborates with other authors, including Boonwurrung Elder, Aunty Fay Stewart Muir, OAM. Their books include acclaimed picture books, Respect, Family, and Sharing, from the Our Place series. Their collaboration Always Was, Always Will Be, won the Eve Pownall Award, Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, 2025.