Juliet Jacques (b. Redhill, Surrey in 1981) is a writer, filmmaker, broadcaster and academic based in London. She has published six books, including Trans: A Memoir (2015), two short story collections including Variations (2021), Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2021 (2022), and a novella, Monaco (2023). Her radical arts & culture podcast Suite(212) is back in action!
Keith Jarrett’s poetry, fiction and essays have been widely anthologised. A multiple slam champion, he was selected for the International Literary Showcase as an outstanding LGBT writer. Keith teaches at NYU London and holds a PhD from Birkbeck. His latest poetry collection Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied is out now from Bad Betty Press.
Ruth McCarthy is Artistic Director with Outburst Arts in Belfast, who have commissioned, developed and showcased new queer art across platforms for two decades. She has worked with queer artists, writers and activists in 34 countries and has special interest in queer literature.
So Mayer is the editor of catflap, and most recently the author of Bad Language, a memoir and manifesto on power and language, out now from Peninsula Press, and their collection of speculative (non)fiction, Truth & Dare, from Cipher Press. They work as an indie bookseller and writing mentor, and as a member of queer feminist film curation collective Club Des Femmes.
Jack Thompson is publisher and commissioning editor and Cipher Press, an independent publishing house amplifying the work of queer and trans writers.