Koleka Putuma (Author) Koleka Putuma is a South African multi-award-winning theatre practitioner, writer and poet. Her bestselling debut poetry collection Collective Amnesia received the 2018 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, was named 2017 book of the year by the City Press and one of the best books of 2017 by The Sunday Times and Quartz Africa. Her work tackles themes such as sexuality, gender, race and politics. In 2022, Putuma was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award - a first-time award for Poetry. She is also the founder and director of Manyano Media, a multidisciplinary creative company that empowers and produces stories by black queer women. She lives in Cape Town. Adriana Bellet (Illustrator) Adriana Bellet is an illustrator with her heart divided between Spain, Britain and Sweden. She has a degree in advertising but has never used it. She discovered her love for illustration while studying design. She taught herself to draw and developed an obsession with old-school art materials. Still, the iPad is her tool of choice. She had three children in five years, has four espressos a day and daily she makes peace with the wonderful absurdities of being an adult in today's world. She is based in Stockholm.