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Laura Noakes Author

Laura Noakes is a disabled writer and
historian from Bedfordshire. She has written
articles for Disability in Kidlit and Kettle
Mag, and her poetry has been published in
Scrittura Magazine. She was awarded her
doctorate in legal history in 2021, and works
at the best-named museum in Scotland,
The Devil’s Porridge. She lives in beautiful
Cumbria with her fiancé, Connor, and her
mischievous cat, Scout.

Flavia Sorrentino lives and works as a freelance illustrator in Rome, where she grew up, and which inspires her each day to seek new ways of communication and expression. Her work has taken her across the globe, from France to America and beyond.