Ailsa Wild was a professional acrobat and whip-cracker who ran away from the circus to become a writer. She is now an author, performer and community artist who loves collaboration. Ailsa has a Masters of Creative Media (creative writing) from RMIT, has written two junior fiction series: Squishy Taylor and The Naughtiest Pixie and is the lead writer of Small Friends Books series. Her collaboration, the science-based graphic novel The Invisible War was a CBCA notable and won several awards including Most Underrated Book Award. Ailsa’s books have been published in Spain, Brasil, US, UK, Egypt and Korea and publications in Israel and China are scheduled for 2020.

Ailsa’s work has appeared in Meanjin, The Monthly, ABC online and #METOO: stories from the Australian movement. She has spoken at many literary festivals including Melbourne Writers Festival, World Science Festival Brisbane, Williamstown Literary Festival and Ipswich StoryArts Festival. She has also guest lectured at several universities and presented at more than 200 schools around Australia. She has collaborated on and performed in several circus and physical theatre productions, which have toured Australia. Ailsa is available for school and public bookings through Booked Out.