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Inbali Iserles
Inbali Iserles is a British children’s author of animal fantasy stories. Her debut novel, The Tygrine Cat, was published in 2007 in the UK (Walker Books) and 2008 in the US (Candlewick Press). Foxcraft 1: The Taken, the first book of her Foxcraft series, was published simultaneously in the US and UK by Scholastic Press in 2015. It has also come out in a number of territories, including Germany, where it is published under the name Foxcraft – Die Magie der Füchse.

Foxcraft 2: The Elders is out in 2016.

Iserles is one of the team of authors behind the New York Times bestselling Survivors series, who write under the pseudonym Erin Hunter

Early life
Iserles was born in Israel and moved to England with her family when her father accepted a position at the University of Cambridge. When she was 11, her family moved to Tucson, Arizona for a year. On her website Iserles talks about her excitement at seeing coyotes, road runners and snakes.

Iserles describes herself as an animal lover. Her earliest memories are of feeding stray cats or rescuing injured birds. She has variously owned gerbils, hamsters, goldfish, rabbits, degus, cats and a Japanese Spitz dog called Michi.

Writing
Iserles' first book, The Tygrine Cat (Walker Books, 2007), won critical acclaim and was shortlisted for a number of awards. It won the Calderdale Children’s Book of the Year Award in 2008. She has since published a sequel, The Tygrine Cat: On the Run (Walker, 2011) and an unrelated title, The Bloodstone Bird (Walker, 2008). She published her first book as Erin Hunter in 2013 (Survivors 3: Darkness Falls, HarperCollins)

On her website, Iserles explains that she developed a fascination with urban foxes by watching them prowl the streets of London. Foxcraft was sold to Scholastic at auction at the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair. It has been sold into a large number of territories.

Iserles is represented by The Blair Partnership, the same agents who also represent JK Rowling.

Books

 * The Tygrine Cat (Walker Books, 2007 and Candlewick Press, 2008)
 * The Bloodstone Bird (Walker Books, 2008)
 * The Tygrine Cat: On the Run (Walker Books, 2011)
 * Foxcraft 1: The Taken (Scholastic Press, 2015)
 * Foxcraft 2: The Elders (Scholastic Press, due for release 2016)

Books published as Erin Hunter

 * Survivors 3: Darkness Falls (HarperCollins, 2013)
 * Survivors 5: The Endless Lake (HarperCollins, 2014)
 * Survivors 6: The Storm of Dogs (HarperCollins, 2015)