Hannah Berry is an award-winning comics creator, scriptwriter and campaigner. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was appointed UK Comics Laureate 2019-21. Editions of her books have been published in the USA, France, Holland, Serbia and Italy, and she has been a guest of and speaker at over 150 comics, literature and arts festivals and events around the world.

Berry is the author of three critically acclaimed graphic novels published by Jonathan Cape. The French edition of her first, BRITTEN & BRÜLIGHTLY (2008) was chosen for the OFFICIAL SELECTION of the 2010 Angoulême International Comics Festival; her second, ADAMTINE (2012) is currently in development with Wiip; and her third, LIVESTOCK (2017) won Berry a BEST WRITER AWARD at the 2017 Broken Frontier Awards and was nominated in the BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL category. She has contributed comics to anthologies and publications from 2000AD to the New England Journal of Medicine, was a cartoonist for New Statesman and Prospect Magazine, and wrote several episodes of the multi-award-winning scripted podcast THE REZ.

In her role as Laureate she instigated and carried out the first national survey of UK comics creators to gain a better understanding of the industry and those working within it. This led to the founding of the Society of Authors’ Comics Creators Network – of which she is on the steering committee – which advocates for creators and offers professional support. She is also 1/6th of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC), raising awareness of the cultural impact of comics and making the case for better funding, support and recognition, as well as being a trustee of the Cartoon Museum.

Berry is half Ecuadorian and lives in Brighton with her partner, daughter, cat and tortoise. She is extremely partial to cashews; the Ferrari of the nut world.