Christine Modafferi

Chris Modafferi is an Italian-American editor-turned-writer. In 2015, she moved to London with one big dream: to work in publishing. Since then, she's worked at Penguin Random House, Bloomsbury and Scholastic, where she nurtured talent and brought beautiful, often hilarious books to life as an editor. Chris is obsessed with her orange cat, Frodo, and her tuxedo cat, Dracula. Her first authored children's non-fiction book, Earth's New Animals, was published by Hachette in 2025.