Maisie Chan

Maisie Chan is children's author whose debut novel Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths won the Jhalak Prize and the Branford Boase Award in 2022. Her second novel Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu was longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2023 and made the Best Middlegrade Books of 2023 list by Kirkus.

Her latest novel Nate Yu's Blast From the Past is a Scottish Book Trust: Book of the Month, one of the 'Best Children's Chapter Books for the Summer' according to The Observer and The Week Junior: Book of the Week. And is also longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards.

She also writes the series Tiger Warrior. She has written early readers for Hachette and Big Cat Collins, and has a collection of myths and legends out with Scholastic.

Maisie is one of the authors in best selling The Very Merry Murder Club anthology which is edited by Robin Stevens and Serena Patel. Her debut picture book is called Chi Chi the Panda, illustrated by Jo Lindley. It is a historical non-fiction about the panda who became the face of the World Wildlife Fund.

She founded the Bubble Tea Writers Network to support and encourage writers of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) descent in the U.K. Maisie is a Chinese Brummie, but now lives in Glasgow with her family and dog.

Maisie was shortlisted for the Ruth Rendall Award 2026 and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow in 2024-26.