Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick is an award-winning Irish author/illustrator. Her picture books include The Sleeping Giant, Izzy and Skunk, Hagwitch, There and Owl Bat Bat Owl. Her debut YA novel, On Midnight Beach, received rave reviews and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her YA Sisters of the Moon was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. The Museum of Lost Umbrellas is her first foray into middle grade fiction. Marie-Louise lives in County Kildare in Ireland.