Robert Paul Weston (London, UK) is the author of Dust City and Zorgamazoo (Penguin/Razorbill), which received the 2011 California Young Reader Medal and the 2010 Silver Birch Fiction award, was shortlisted for the E.B. White Read Aloud Award, and was
named a Children's Literature Association Notable Book. His stories and novels have been nominated for the Journey Prize and the Fountain Award.