Daniel Ingram-Brown
Novelist
About
Daniel Ingram-Brown is an award-winning, middle-grade author based in Yorkshire. His book, Bea’s Witch: A Ghostly Coming-of-age Story (Collective Ink Books, 2021), draws on his experience as an adoptive father to create a ‘bildungsroman of a journey that captures the vulnerability of a child in care’ (Yorkshire Times). The third book in his Firebird Chronicles series, Through the Uncrossable Boundary (Collective Ink Books, 2019), received the Taner Baybars award for original fiction in the field of science fiction, fantasy and magical realism, awarded by the Society of Authors Authors’ Foundation.
Daniel works extensively in education. He has a doctorate in creative writing and education (2024) and received the Dean’s prize for academic achievement at Master’s level from Leeds Beckett University (2018). He has been a First Story writer in residence for primary and secondary schools across Yorkshire, editing eight anthologies of young writers’ work, and is part of Leeds Beckett University’s Story Makers Company, a group of artists and educators delivering creative, child-centred learning opportunities. He works as a consultant for story-based approaches to teaching and regularly undertakes author visits to primary and secondary schools across the country. Daniel is excited to continue his work in education as a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow.
Daniel’s background is in theatre and performance. He is co-artistic director of Suitcase and Spectacles theatre company and a trustee for Alive and Kicking theatre company. From 2013–16 he chaired the Leeds Big Bookend Festival, and he co-organises events and retreats for the Society of Authors.