Pam Smy

Pam Smy is a Senior Lecturer Practitioner in Illustration on the MA Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. She combines teaching with writing and illustrating. She has worked with a range of UK publishers including The Folio Society, Penguin Random House, David Fickling Books, Walker Books and Bloomsbury. She was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Prize and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2018 for her first novel, Thornhilll.

Pam lives in Suffolk in a town full of stories and surrounded by beautiful buildings and landscapes. She can often be seen in the early hours of the morning out in nature with her dog, thinking up ideas for stories and pictures.