Love Ssega is a musician, producer and performing artist of Ugandan heritage, creating work that blurs the lines of civic engagement, understanding, activism and hope. Justice and climate activism weaves through his work. He is Associate Artist at the Southbank Centre 2024-2027. He has had work commissioned by the National Gallery, Royal Shakespeare Company, Serpentine and Whitechapel Gallery amongst others, was the Philharmonia Orchestra's Artist in Residence for 2022-23, and was a featured co-writer for the Southbank's?Imagine a Story?project, as chosen by lead author Sita Brahmachari.
Authors and illustrators
Lauren Crisp
Lauren Crisp is a children’s book editor who is lucky enough to make beautiful books every day. She lives in London but grew up in Yorkshire, and loves long country walks with her dog, Ludo. She enjoys reading, writing and dreaming up fun rhymes for the books she works on.
Laura Silveira
Laura Silveira is a Londoner at heart but now resides in leafy Leicestershire. She earned her BA in Graphic Design at the University for the Creative Arts, Epsom. She has since worked with creative teams large and small, her work featuring on greeting cards, patterns for textiles, packaging, branding, maps, and children's illustrations. Influenced by the late greats Eric Carle and Quentin Blake, she works with a combination of hand-painted textures, Procreate and Photoshop. Her aim is to create rich, textural, characterful, and colourful observations, that have warmth and tell a story. When Laura isn't working, you can find her spending time with her husband and their son, or at her local charity shops, where she volunteers once a week.
Jonny Marx
Jonny Marx lives in London, where he works as a children’s book editor and author. From a compendium of mythical monsters and a chronology of prehistoric creatures, to books about crime capers, lost unicorns, incredible human beings and humankind, Jonny has worked on more than 60 titles (and counting!).
Harriet Howe
Harriet's first word was 'book', and she's loved stories ever since, so it's a dream come true to end up writing her own. When not writing, Harriet works in television. But she's happiest with a pencil in one hand, a cup of tea in the other, brewing up her next story.
Fiona Lumbers
Fiona Lumbers has drawn on anything and everything from an early age and always insisted she would be an artist when she grew up. Fiona moved to London in 2000 to study for an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art. A combination of her obsession with picture books and the arrival of her first son led her down the path of illustration and she hasn't looked back since. Fiona is the illustrator of the bestselling <i>Luna Loves…</i> series, written by Joseph Coelho, and wrote and illustrated the critically-acclaimed <i>Clem and Crab</i>. <br><br>Instagram: @fiona_lumbers
Erika Meza
Danielle McLean
Danielle is a children’s book editor who lives in South East London. She dreams of living in a house full of wiggly piglets and fluffy white kittens. When she’s not writing and editing children’s books, she’ll be found in a ballet class pursuing her other childhood fantasy.
Elissa Elwick
Elissa Elwick is the illustrator of the FETCH AND STICK series. She writes as well as illustrates and is the author/illustrator of THE PRINCESS AND THE SLEEP STEALER. She conjures up ideas from her colourful desk at the Fleece Station, London. www.elissaelwick.co.uk | @ElissaElwick.
Christiane Engel
Christiane loves writing and illustrating, especially for children and young people!
She has illustrated over 30 children’s books so far and also works on magazines, advertising, juvenile fiction, and kids’ products. Christiane lives by the sea in England.