Eleanor Watkins is the award-winning author of over fifty books, most of them fiction for children and YA. Many of them are situated in the rural scene with which she has lived her life, first as a farmer's daughter and then as a farmer's wife.

She loves the natural world, the rhythm of the seasons, meeting people, books, animals, growing things. She and her husband still live in a centuries old farmhouse overlooking the beautiful Wye Valley and the Book Town of Hay-on-Wye. They have four adult children, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.