Janice Warman is an award-winning writer of YA fiction, non-fiction and poetry, based in Crowborough, East Sussex. She is a financial journalist, and a creative writing tutor at Share Community, Clapham Junction, for disabled adults. Her poetry has been published in magazines in the UK and South Africa, in The Hey Nonny Handbook, the women's literary survival guide (Harriman House), in Ballet, a poetic and photographic tribute to her mother (Susakpress/Spiralbound) and in English textbooks in South Africa. She is a past winner of the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Folio Competition. Her journalism career spans The Guardian, The Observer, the Financial Times and BBC Radio 4. Her YA novel The World Beneath, the story of a young boy growing up under apartheid (Walker Books/Candlewick, endorsed by Amnesty International) was a winner in the Children's Africana Book Award in the US. Class of 79 (Jacana) was her tribute to her three fellow journalism students of the seventies who risked their lives to destroy apartheid.