Hannah Shaw graduated from the University of Brighton in 2004 with a degree in illustration, and since then she has continued to write her own stories and develop characters to illustrate them. She has worked as a freelance illustrator, graphic designer and a visiting lecturer for an Art Foundation course. Evil Weasel, her first picture book, won the Cambridgeshire Children's Book Award in 2009. Hannah lives near Stroud in Gloucestershire with her husband Ben the blacksmith and Ren the crazy long-legged dog.