Coral Vass

Coral Vass is an award-winning Australian Children’s Author with several books published with Scholastic Books Australia, National Library of Australia and Penguin Random House Australia.

Her book, Sorry Day won the 2018 Speech Pathology Awards Book of the Year for Language and Literacy Development Indigenous Children and the 2019 CBCA Book of the Year - Eve Pownall Award. Coral has also been shortlisted for the REAL AWARDS (CROC, KOALA and YABBA Awards) voted by the children of Australia.

Coral loves to visit schools, often running writing workshops and inspiring young people with a love for literature. She is an ambassador for Reading Out of Poverty and is passionate about giving all children an equal opportunity to read.

With a background in Media, Coral has always had a passion for telling stories and inspiring children with a love for literature. She dabbled in script writing, radio drama and video production, before working a decade in marketing and publications.

Born in Sydney Australia, Coral spent her early years in Bangladesh. She has also lived in Queensland, Japan and currently resides by the beach in Melbourne, Victoria with her husband and four children.

Her signature writing style has a splash of rhythm, a dash of rhyme and is stirred with fun! As well as children's books, Coral loves dark chocolate, good coffee, the theatre and the beach.