Pari Thomson

Pari Thomson is the author of the New York Times bestselling Greenwild series, as well as being an editorial director for picture books at Bloomsbury Children’s Books. Greenwild: The World Behind the Door was Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year and winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2023.

Half Persian, half English, Pari has lived in many places, including India, Pakistan, the United States and Belgium. She studied at Oxford University and now lives in London, not far from Kew Gardens.