Fiona Dunbar was born in Hertfordshire. She grew up trailing around jazz clubs with her jazz musician stepfather and left school when she was sixteen to go to Art College. Fiona was a regular at the Camden Palace, alongside the likes of Boy George! Her and a friend would spend all Thursday night making their clothes for the Friday night`s clubbing. When Fiona realised she wouldn`t be a famous artist, she began a commercial art career in TV and advertising. After a stint doing illustration for Punch, which she really enjoyed, Fiona began illustrating for picture books by other authors. It was at this time that she met her lovely American lawyer husband Pano. After living in New York for a number of years, where her two children were born, Fiona settled back in North London and began to write for children instead of drawing for them. She is now the hugely successful author of the Lulu Baker trilogy and the Silk Sisters trilogy, along with the marvellous Toonhead.