Vanessa Curtis' first children's book Zelah Green: Queen of Clean (Egmont) was shortlisted for the 2009 Waterstones Children's Book Prize. The sequel Zelah Green: One More Little Problem was released in July 2010. Curtis is also a freelance book reviewer and the author of three books on Virginia Woolf. As a trained pianist, she also teaches the piano part-time. She works as a reader for a literary consultancy and lives near Chichester harbour, West Sussex, U.K.
