Woodrow Phoenix is a comics writer and artist whose constant experiments with the form appear regularly in Europe, Japan, North and South America. His strips have featured in many UK newspapers including The Guardian, the Independent on Sunday and the Observer. He creates graphic novels for both adults and children, some adapted for television projects…
Lydia Monks is a best-selling children’s book author and illustrator. Her first picture book, I Wish I Were a Dog, won the Smarties book prize in 1998. She has since been nominated for many awards for her work including The Greenaway, The Scottish Book Prize and The Nibbies. As well as writing her own books,…
Nichola Smalley is a translator of Swedish and Norwegian literature. Her translation of Andrzej Tichý’s novel Wretchedness won the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2021 Bernard Shaw Prize. She has a PhD in the use of slang in contemporary Swedish and English literature, and was, until…
Ian Giles is a translator of the Scandinavian languages into English and the current Chair of the Translators Association. Photograph © Camila França
Cath Barton (she/her) is an English writer who has lived in Abergavenny since 2005. Cath won the New Welsh Writing AmeriCymru Prize for the Novella 2017 for The Plankton Collector, which was published by New Welsh Review in 2018. Subsequent publications of novellas are In the Sweep of the Bay (2020, Louise Walters Books) shortlisted…
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,…
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…
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…
