Laura has over 20 years experience of working with vulnerable children across Manchester. This has included management roles with alternative education providers, in youth offending and in secure children’s homes. She currently promotes diversity in children’s literature and runs a pop-up book shop that reflects this. She is also working on a feminist reinterpretation of the Harlem renaissance.

Muli Amaye is a novelist and short story writer. She gained a PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. Her interests very much centre around women, memory, migration, diaspora and belonging. She has taught creative writing in tertiary education in the UK, Northern Iraq and Trinidad and Tobago since 2006 and has worked in the community for over 20 years. She still gets inspired and excited at the opportunity to teach and learn. Her debut novel, A House With No Angels, was published by Crocus Press in 2019.

Bethan has over 30 years experience of community development work in inner city communities in the Northwest of England. She currently works for the NHS in Manchester as a Health Development Coordinator, bringing health and social care professionals, local organisations and communities together to create healthier, stronger neighbourhoods.

Over the years she has worked with a variety of community associations and has a particular interest in fostering and adoption as well as access to the arts for people with learning disabilities.

Amy Stuart has worked in the Media industry for over 15 years.  She commissioned and managed a variety of content and campaigns for BBC Childrens, Factual and Sport  working on brilliant shows and events such as Green Planet, Horrible Histories and the Olympics.

Having completed a BA Hons in Creative Arts at Bath Spa University she has maintained a love of creative writing, which is why she’s so proud to be part of Cultureword