Alice Oseman is an awardwinning author illustrator and screenwriter and was born in 1994 in Kent England She has written four YA contemporary novels about teenage disasters Solitaire Radio Silence I Was Born for This and Loveless She is the creator of LGBTQ YA romance webcomic Heartstopper which is now published in physical form by Hachette Childrens Group and she is the writer creator and executive producer for the television adaptation of Heartstopper which is set to be released on Netflix Alices first novel Solitaire was published when she was nineteen Her YA novels have been nominated for the YA Book Prize the Inky Awards the Carnegie Medal and the Goodreads Choice Awards Alongside writing and drawing Alice enjoys playing the piano semiproficiently Pokémon games and purchasing too many Converse