Nick Bland se passionne pour le dessin et l'ecriture. En 1996, alors qu'il travaille dans une librairie, il trouve enfin sa voie: il decide de se consacrer a la litterature jeunesse. Apres avoir illustre plusieurs livres pour les lecteurs debutants, il publie son premier album chez Scholastic Australie, J'ai rendez-vous avec un monstre, qui est aussitot prime par le Children's Book Council of Australia. Nick a depuis signe plusieurs autres livres a succes. Il vit a Darwin, en Australie. Nick Bland was the son of an artist and a primary school teacher, and spent his early years on the farm where his parents lived. At age six, he moved with his family to the bush. He wanted to be a cartoonist and a writer from a very young age. In 1996, he took a job at a book store, and decided to write and illustrate children's books. His first book, A Monster Wrote Me a Letter (J'ai rendez-vous avec un monstre) was published in Australia in 2005. He currently lives in Darwin, Australia and works full time as an author and illustrator.