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 Christie Watson trained as a nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital and worked for over ten years as a children's nurse before writing. She has a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing at University of East Anglia, and is a winner of the Malcolm Bradbury Bursary. Christie lives in South London with her Nigerian Muslim partner, and their large dual heritage, multi-faith family. She reads widely and she writes every day, even on Christmas.
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 Virginia Dike is a professor and head of the Department of Library and Information Science at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria. She grew up in the United States in Indianapolis, Indiana, and has a BA in History from Harvard University and an MA in Education and an MSc in Library Science, both from Columbia University. She is an American by birth and Nigerian by marriage and has five children.
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Dr Carlos Moore was born and raised in Cuba but banished for three decades from his native land as a result of his opposition to the racial policies of the Castro regime. He holds two PhDs in Human Sciences and Ethnology from the University of Paris-7, France. He is an honorary Research Fellow in the School for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Kingston, Jamaica.
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 Lola Shoneyin is a writer and teacher based in Abuja, Nigeria. She is married with four children and also writes poetry. Find out more about Lola at her website.
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