It has been published in Australia, the US and India and translated into German, Turkish, Chinese characters, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian and Bulgarian.
[3] Prior to writing fiction Tanner held a number of jobs including as a teacher in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Campaign,[7] and was named as a "White Raven" by the International Youth Library in Munich.
[8][9] City of Lies, the second book in the Keepers trilogy, won the 2011 Aurealis Award for Children's Fiction.
In 2020 Tanner and illustrator Jonathan Bentley won the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Ella and the Ocean.