Acclaimed author/illustrator Mark Wilson's picture books include the war-themed series, My Mother's Eyes: The Story of a Boy Soldier (2009), Angel of Kokoda (2010), Vietnam Diary (2013) and Digger, The Dog Who Went To War (2015).

He has also written and illustrated Migaloo, The White Whale (2015), Beth: The Story of a Child Coonvict (2016) and the art-themed books Ben & Gracie's Art Adventure (2011) and Inside The World of Tom Roberts (2012).

His other titles include the Wilderness Society and Whitley Award-winning Extinction series I Saw Nothing: The Extinction of the Thylacine; I Said Nothing: The Extinction of the Paradise Parrot and I Did Nothing: The Extinction of the Gastric Brooding Frog and Yellow-Eye (2002), which also won the Wilderness Society Award. Mark lives in Frankston, Victoria.