Maura is an award-winning author and playwright based in Canberra. Maura’s widely acclaimed play Fragments is being produced as a web series, due for release in 2022. Her debut picture book, The Trouble in Tune Town, won the 2018 ACT Writing and Publishing Award (Children’s category) and overseas honours. When she’s not busy writing, Maura visits schools and libraries as a guest reader and speaker, serves as a Role Model for Books in Homes Australia, and contributes reviews for the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s online magazine, Reading Time. In an earlier life, Maura was an ethicist, business owner and Editor of Australian Medicine. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy, specialising in ethics. Maura has picture books coming out with Affirm Press (2024) and in June 2023, Storytorch Press will publish her creative non-fiction picture book, What Will You Make Today?You can find out more about Maura at maurapierlot.com and follow her @maurapierlot (IG/Twitter).