Since winning the Brian Moore Award in 2006 with her very first story, Sheena Wilkinson has won many awards for short fiction, including, most recently, the Riptide International Award for young adult fiction. Her first novel, Taking Flight (Little Island, 2010) was CBI’s Editor’s Choice for 14+ in their Recommended Reads 2010, one of the Irish Times Children’s Books of the Year 2011, and won the Children’s Choice prize and the Special Fiction Merit prize at the 2011 Irish Bisto Awards. Taking Flight, has also just been chosen to be included in the prestigious 2011 White Raven Catalogue chosen by the International Youth Library in Munich. Her second novel, Grounded ( Little Island Books) a sequel to Taking Flight, will be coming out in 2012.