Kevin Crossley-Holland is a well-known and award-winning author for children.  He has translated Beowulf and his retellings of traditional tale include The Penguin Book of Norse Myths and British Folk Tales (reissued this year under the title The Magic Lands). 

  His collaborations with composers include two operas with Nicola Lefanu (The Green Children and The Wildman), song cycles with Sir Arthur Bliss and William Mathias, and a carol with Stephen Paulus for King’s College, Cambridge.  His play The Wuffings (co-authored with Ivan Cutting) was produced by Eastern Angles in 1997. 

After seven years teaching in Minnesota, Kevin Crossley-Holland now lives in North Norfolk.  His recent books are his Selected Poems (taken from seven volumes of poetry), and the first two parts of a trilogy that combines the cycle of Arthurian legends with a story set in medieval times, The Seeing Stone and At The Crossing Places.  The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Tir na n-Og Award and the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year.

  Kevin Crossley-Holland is chairman of the Poetry-next-the-Sea Festival, now in its fifth year, and has often lectured abroad on behalf of the British Council.  He regularly leads sessions for teachers and librarians, and visits primary and secondary schools.  He offers workshops on the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, King Arthur, heroines and heroes, and myth, legend and folk-tale, and creative writing sessions

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