Ken Spillman is an acclaimed Australian author who began as a poet and has since written around 40 books spanning several genres. He has enjoyed considerable success with fiction for young readers, notably the Jake series, which now appears in more than a dozen countries across four continents. Ken is a popular speaker on writing and creativity and has presented sessions to more than 60,000 school children in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Oman, the Philippines and Singapore.