Eliza Fricker is a Sunday Times bestselling author and illustrator, and an advocate and consultant for PDA, autism and learning. Over more than a decade, she has crafted a body of work that brings together stunning illustration and genuine honesty to give voice to experiences that mainstream culture has too often passed by.

Her book Can not Not Won’t, an illustrated story of a family navigating school avoidance, is the title that earned her Sunday Times Bestseller status and a place on the University of Cambridge reading list. Alongside it sit A Different Kind of Parenting and the autobiographical Thumbsucker, along with her newest book, Could Try Harder. Her books are published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Little, Brown, and her work has taken her into collaboration with NHS England, Save the Children, and more than twenty local authorities.

Missing The Mark launched in early 2020, when amongst continued struggles with gaining support and understanding within the English education system, Eliza began documenting her frustrations and experiences through her illustrations, an attempt to communicate difficult circumstances with teachers, educators, social workers, other parents and friends of those also experiencing these issues.

Eliza brings something rare to her craft, the ability to make people laugh and feel deeply seen, often on the very same page. For parents and carers trying to hold everything together, her work comes from having walked that same road herself, eight years of navigating the system for her own daughter, and it shows in every consultation. For educators and school leaders, her illustrations offer a way in that training manuals often cannot, communicating in seconds what many people spend years trying to articulate. And for psychiatrists, psychologists and researchers, her illustration work brings warmth and clarity to ideas that are otherwise difficult to hold.

Eliza offers:

• One to one consultations
• Webinars
• Training and keynote talks for schools and local authorities
• Illustration commissions

Building on a surge of gracious personal responses and industry acclaim, Missing The Mark has evolved, alongside Eliza’s parental journey, to offer much needed support in a broader capacity.

Eliza has received a number of supportive and heartfelt endorsements of her publications and illustrations from colleagues and readers.

Eliza Fricker works extensively with other independent professionals, organisations and local authorities as an advocate, consultant and illustrator.

Collaborations and commissions include work with University of Cambridge, University of Leeds, University of Reading, University of Sussex, NHS England, Save the Children, Brighton & Hove City Council, West Sussex County Council, Haringey Council, Telford & Wrekin Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Warwickshire County Council, Cheltenham Borough Council, Capa First Response, Jessica King Publishers, Little Brown Book Group, Crown House Publishing, Routledge Publishing, Pallant House Gallery, Elizabeth Casson Trust, National Autistic Society, Rethinking Education and Autistic Girls Network.

If you are interested in working with or commissioning Eliza in any capacity she would be very happy to discuss your projects and proposals. Please get in touch with any enquiries.