Lucy Rowland grew up in Cheltenham and gained a degree in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Reading before becoming a children’s speech and language therapist in South London, where she now lives. Lucy has loved reading and listening to poetry from a young age and has turned her passion into writing stories with quirky characters and irresistible rhythms, as seen in Jake Bakes a Monster Cake, Pirate Pete and His Smelly Feet, and Little Red Reading Hood.