Beverley McWilliams is a multiple award-winning author from South Australia with a passion for historical fiction and stories about animals. Beverley’s middle-grade novel Spies in the Sky won the ARA Historical Novel Prize 2024, was shortlisted for the Readings Prize and longlisted for the Booklinks Award for Historical Fiction. Beverley’s published picture books include Willow’s Gumboots which was the Speech Pathology Book of the Year 2025 and a CBCA notable.

In 2023, Beverley was awarded an Arts SA Grant to travel to rural Thailand as research for her historical novel, Bandoola, which is due for release with University of Western Australia Publishing in August 2026.

Beverley is joint regional coordinator of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (South Australia). She lives near the beach with her family and menagerie of pets who provide endless inspiration.