Mimi Thebo

Mimi Thebo is an American author and academic based in the West Country, England. Her most recent and most successful books have been for children. ''Dreaming the Bear'' was nominated for the 2017 Carnegie Medal named as a 'future classic' by Booktrust and long listed for the 2017 UKLA award. ''Dreaming the Bear'' was published by Oxford University Press in the UK in 2016 and would be later published by Wendy Lamb in the USA in 2017.

Previous books included ''Wipe Out'', which was Sunday Times Book of the Week and was adapted for the BBC into a BAFTA Award-Winning film by Barabara Cox. ''Wipe Out'' was published in 2002 by HarperCollins, and has been recommended for children suffering from grief by the Marie Curie Trust.

In addition, Thebo was a Senior Lecturer at her alma mater Bath Spa University from 2000 to 2017 and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Cardiff University from 2014 to 2017. As of 2017, she is a Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. Provided by Wikipedia