Lyn Gardner is a British theatre critic, writer and journalist, who works for The Guardian. A graduate in Drama and English at Kent University, she was a founding member of the City Limits cooperative. Before joining The Guardian she reviewed theatre for a London listings magazine. Gardner is a writer of children's novels, the earliest being Into the Woods and Out of the Woods, both illustrated by Mini Grey and published by David Fickling Books. ISFDB catalogues it as the "Storm Eden" series. She has written 6 further children's novels for Nosy Crow, known as the "Stage School Series", base around a young girl named Olivia attending Stage School. They have been well received, and a final 7th book was published in July 2013. The first in the series was Olivia's First Term. Other books are due in 2013, including a children's book created in collaboration with illustrator Ros Asquith. [More at Wikipedia]