Chren Byng is a children’s book publisher for Hardie Grant Publishing Australia. She has worked in the book industry for over twenty years, and in that time she is proud to have edited and published books from many of Australia’s most-loved authors and illustrators, including Judith Rossell, Philip Bunting, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Bronwyn Bancroft, Matt Stanton, Katrina Nannestad, Kirli Saunders, Freya Blackwood, Andrea Rowe, Hannah Sommerville and many, many more. Chren is also the convenor of the Children’s Publishers Committee, a subcommittee of the Australian Publishers Association, where she also serves as a board member.