Julia Gray (Author)
Julia Gray is an author and occasional singer-songwriter based in Oxfordshire. Her young adult novel The Otherlife (2016) was longlisted for the Branford Boase Award. Little Liar (2018) was shortlisted for Best YA Novel at Crimefest. I, Ada (2020) was shortlisted for the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction. All three novels were published by Andersen Press and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Julia presented a podcast series to accompany I, Ada, in which she interviewed women in the fields of maths and science. Julia has released six albums and regularly writes and performs music inspired by books; she is also the lead writer for the publisher Wonderbly.

Imogen Russell Williams (Author)
Imogen Russell Williams is a children's literature critic and author of children's non-fiction including Great Britons and Great Elizabethans (Nosy Crow), The Big Book of the UK and The Big Book of Slimy Things (Ladybird) and a forthcoming book about magical creatures in folklore. She also writes poetry for both children and adults. Her first collection, The Women Left Behind, was published in 2019 by Dempsey and Windle; her second, Strange Sons, Dangerous Daughters, a revisiting of the Mabinogi, is published by Broken Sleep in 2026. Kitty and Mary is her first novel for adults and young adults.