N.E. McMorran is a British-Cypriot award-winning autistic author, and designer, who previously worked at the BBC and taught in London nursery, primary and secondary schools. She founded and directed the Cyprus magazine publishing company AccessArts Publications Ltd and, more recently, founded the award-winning London based independent Spondylux Press, run by autistic female and non-binary professionals to support neurodivergent creatives.

The author's debut novel, 'MOOJAG and the AUTICODE SECRET' which won the NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD 2021 and PURPLE DRAGONFLY 2024, was inspired by her experiences growing up in a neurodivergent family, as well as a mother and home educator, and the journey to late autism diagnosis.
In 2021 she worked with Peter Street on his childhood biography, 'Goalkeeper: Memoir of Poet Peter Street', later shortlisted for the 2023 RUBERY AWARD.
Her second children's novel 'The Lost Memories', stand alone sequel to 'Auticode Secret', published in Oct 2023, won the series a second NAUTILUS AWARD in 2024, as well as Firebird Awards in their 'Neurodivergent', and 'Cli-fi' categories. The third and final Moojag instalment, 'The Sloth Guardians', is out December 2025.

Inspiration behind the MOOJAG series, and its 'Gajoom' and 'Pof' characters...

As a young child, Nema listened in awe to her parents’ made-up stories about giant animated rock candy, and greedy fairies who magic-up sweet treats. After moving to Cyprus, in her late 20s, she decided to write a book based on their stories: 'The Gajoomstiks' and 'Poof Poof'. She wrote a few pages, but life happened and she put it away when she became a mum. She started to tell her boy, her own made-up stories, and in 2013 she picked up the story again. Inspired by her son and their journey, as an undiagnosed autistic single mum, she spent the next seven years working on Moojag, teaching herself how to write fiction along the way, until finally completing 'The Auticode Secret' in 2019.