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Zelda Rhiando is a Dublin writer who has spent most of her life in London. Her first novel Caposcripti came out in 2012. Zelda travelled to Japan to research her second novel Fukushima Dreams and is currently working on a third Good Morning Mr Magpie. When not writing she can be found child-wrangling and making digital products. @badzelda / www.badzelda.com
The only child of two writers, Merlin Sinclair grew up in a world that revolved around literature. Breaking the family tradition, he rebelled and joined the corporate world, where he worked as a copywriter and
marketer. However, unable to escape the inevitable, he has now completed his debut, a historical novel inspired by a trip to the Prado in Madrid.
Paula Lennon is the sixth and last child in a family of boys, born to Jamaican parents in the West Midlands, England. Paula lived in Jamaica during her teens and attended high school in Chapelton. She currently resides in Jamaica, where she is always actively plotting, writing, and being distracted by the Caribbean Sea. Murder in Montego Bay is her debut novel released on 9th June 2017 by publisher Jacaranda Books, London. @PaulaDL16
Leila Segal was born in London. Breathe: Stories from Cuba (Flipped Eye, 2016) is her debut short story collection, and originates in the time she lived in Havana and the Pinar del Río province of Cuba. Leila is director of Voice of Freedom, a project with formerly trafficked women, enabling women who have escaped their captors to use text and photography to talk about their lives. @leilasegal / http://www.leilasegal.com
Robert 'Hacker' Jessett writes Urban-Country, a genre that could loosely be defined as a lyrical blend of rock, electro, folk and alt-country. He has recorded six studio albums with his band Morton Valence, one of which (Bob & Veronica Ride Again) was accompanied by a 110-page novella of the same name, and another, Europa was recorded in seven different languages.
