Jan-Andrew Henderson (J.A. Henderson) is the author of 40 children's, teen, YA and adult fiction and non-fiction books. He has been published in the UK, USA, Australia, Canada and Europe by Oxford University Press, Collins, Hardcourt Press, Amberley Books, Oetinger Publishing, Mainstream Books, Black and White Publishers, Mlada Fontana, Black Hart and Floris Books. He has been shortlisted for fifteen literary awards in the UK and Australia and won the Doncaster Book Prize, The Aurealis Award and the Royal Mail Award - Britain's biggest children's book prize. He runs The Green Light Literary Breakdown Service, offering advice and editing to authors and teaches online courses for the Romance Writers of Australia Academy and Infostack. He has appeared at numerous writers festivals and given talks and workshops across the UK and Australia in conjunction with Literature Live, Authors Abroad, Nexus Arts and Speakers Ink. He is a professional member of the Institute of Professional Editors, an industry assessor/mentor for the Queensland Writers Centre, a mentor for the Horror Writers Association, an ambassador for Australia Reads, a peer/grant assessor for the Australian Council for The Arts, a convenor for the Aurealis Awards and Writer in Residence for organisations as disparate as Ipswich Kindergarten and The Catholic School, Townsville. He features in many anthologies as a contributor and editor and has written several plays - performed as far apart as New York State, Texas, Leeds and the Edinburgh International Festival. He is also the founder of Black Hart Entertainment which runs the famous City of the Dead Ghost Tours in Edinburgh and Black Hart Press.
