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.
Philip Gross has published some twenty collections of poetry, including A Bright Acoustic (Bloodaxe, 2017), winning the T.S.Eliot Prize in 2009, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2017. From 2004 to 2017 he was Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Wales. He is a keen collaborator – with artist Valerie Coffin Price on A Fold In The River (Seren, 2015)…
Amanda Holiday is an artist and poet, founder of Black Sunflowers – a small poetry press focussed on publishing the work of women and black poets. She is also a doctoral student in Poetry Race and Art at the University of Brighton.
Alwyn Marriage is a poet, novelist and Managing Editor at Oversteps Books. She has published ten books, including non-fiction, poetry and a novel; she has recently completed a second novel and is putting together two new poetry collections. She has taken over as Managing Editor of Oversteps Books in 2008 and has since published around 100 poetry collections…
Anita Loughrey writes teacher resources and non-fiction for primary schools as well as educational picture books on a wide variety of subjects for a wide range of educational publishers with over 100 books published in the UK and many more worldwide. Some of the most recent books she has written include a technology encyclopaedia, the first…
Miles Hudson has been writing educational materials (for money) for 20 years, and has been an SoA member for 15 years. Writing is now his full-time job. Miles’ specialism is secondary science, particularly physics, and he has worked for Pearson, OUP, Kognity, BBC, York Press, British Council, Perimeter Institute, writing both domestic and international products. With…
Emily Guille-Marrett has worked in educational publishing for the schools and home learning market for over 20 years. She is joint Series Editor and co-author of over 80 books for Collins Education’s reading programme Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds.
Barney Norris was born in Sussex in 1987. After leaving university he founded the touring theatre company Up in Arms with Alice Hamilton. His plays include Nightfall (The Bridge Theatre); While We’re Here (Up in Arms at the Bush and on tour); Echo’s End (Salisbury Playhouse); Eventide (Arcola and on tour); the acclaimed Visitors (Up in Arms, Arcola and on tour – Winner of the…
Sean Grundy’s first Afternoon Play for Radio 4, Cavity, received rave press reviews (“glitteringly original”, “sharp, sexy, surreal, but somehow utterly believable comedy”) and his second, The Recordist, was Sony-nominated. Full Monty screenwriter Simon Beaufoy wrote of Sean’s drama Poorland: ‘An amazing, fierce-some piece of work.’ His biopic on Patrick Moore, Far Side Of The Moore, was nominated for…
