Briony Stewart

Briony Stewart is an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books. In 2022 she won the Prime Minister's Literary Award in the category of Children's Fiction for her work with Sheryl Clarke on the verse novel Mina and the Whole Wide World. She is the author and illustrator of the award-winning Kumiko and the Dragon series and We Love You Magoo, which was a CBCA Early Childhood Honour Book for 2020; Gymnastica Fantastica!, the winner of the 2024 CBCA Book of the Year for Early Childhood; and Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn't), which was shortlisted for both the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2025 and the CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year 2025. Briony lectures on children's literature at university and conducts talks and workshops with children across Australia. She loves live drawing challenges, daydreaming and discussing dragons, bunnies, and how to tame lions.