Marina Lewycka was born of Ukrainian parents in a German refugee camp after World War II and now lives in Sheffield, Yorkshire. Her award-winning first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, was published in 2005 and went on to sell a million copies in thirty- five languages. Two Caravans came out in 2007, and first brought her to CIWF. She has since published We Are All Made of Glue in 2009, Various Pets Alive and Dead in 2012, The Lubetkin Legacy in 2015, and The Good the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid in 2019.