Michaela is an author and a poet who writes for all ages but is widely published for children. She comes from a non-literary background and is passionate about encouraging accessibility and enjoyment of poetry. She lives in Edinburgh where she is currently working on her collected poems (to be published by Otter-Barrie Books). She has…
Isabel del Rio is a British/Spanish poet, fiction writer and translator. Born in Madrid, she has lived mostly in London. Her poetry collections include Madrid Madrid Madrid, Dolorem Ipsum, and Cuaderno de notas; her most recent fiction includes Paradise & Hell, A Woman Alone: fragments of a memoir, and La autora del fin del mundo. Within the field of literary translation,…
Helen Sedgwick is a cross-genre author of literary fiction, science fiction and folk horror. She writes about human connection across time and space, juxtaposing science with the supernatural and realism with ghost story. Her debut, The Comet Seekers (Harvill Secker 2016), was selected as a best book of 2016 by The Herald and her sci-fi novel The Growing…
I live in Edinburgh where I write about the world of people who die with no next-of-kin. I’ve published three novels, written for BBC Radio 4 and been selected by Val McDermid as one of the most compelling LGBTQ+ authors working today. Come say hello on twitter @mspaulsonellis or https://www.marypaulsonellis.co.uk
Rhona Snelling is a freelance ELT author, speaker, project manager, and editor. Rhona is qualified with International House and has extensive experience teaching in Europe and New Zealand. She has been an in-house editor at Pearson and OUP, and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from the University of Oxford….
Tony Grice was an English and Drama teacher and later became a lecturer in English for Academic Purposes teaching in various institutions in Europe, Africa and Asia. Twenty odd years ago he started writing for a living. This put him behind a desk at home from where he saw little of the outside world. Tony’s…
Alun Gibbard has been writing for a living for the last 14 years. He’s published 36 books, in Welsh and English. These are predominantly non-fiction, including some co-written life stories of Welsh people prominent in sport, music, broadcasting, politics and acting, as well as books on aspects of social and political history. He’s published one…
Holly Webb started writing eighteen years ago while working as an editor at a children’s publisher. She now writes full-time, and has written over a hundred and fifty books, which have been translated into thirty-three languages. Her most recent titles are The Homesick Kitten and the Museum Kittens books (Little Tiger) and The Story of…
Josh Lacey has written about 40 books for children and one for adults. In the past, he worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a screenwriter. He has written for various age groups, and his books range from The Pet Potato, a picture book illustrated by Momoko Abe, to middle-grade novels like The Island of…
Lisa Fransson is a bilingual writer living in Sussex, with her husband and three children. In her native Swedish, Lisa’s an award-winning children’s author, while in her adopted English she’s a writer of flash fiction, fairytales and novels-in-progress. She’s represented by Intersaga Literary Agency who is working on the foreign rights to her children’s books….
Rachel Faturoti is a YA and children’s fiction author, poet and editor committed to broadening the scope of authentic Black representation in YA and children’s fiction. A British Nigerian, she works as a sensitivity reader specialising in race and gender issues. Her novels Sadé and Her Shadow Beasts (Hodder Children’s) and Finding Folkshore (Jacaranda) are…
Roland is the Committee’s CEATL representative. He studied theatre, cinema and art history in the UK and France, and has published over 25 translations from French (fiction, art, travel, trade non-fiction). He co-translated (with Louise Rogers Lalaurie) Anne Cuneo’s historical novel Tregian’s Ground and his translation of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83 were both published in 2015.
