Tutor: Ama Asantewa Diaka is a storyteller and a community catalyst. She is the author of three books: “You too will know me”, “Woman, eat me whole” and “Someone birthed them broken”. She is the founder of Black Girls Glow, an arts nonprofit that uses art to build thriving ecosystems, Tampered Press, an independent Ghana-based publisher focused on books by and about Africans, and Yobbings, a culture-inspired design company. Ama is a partner at Aayalolo Foundry, a design company that developed Ga Maamli, Ghana’s first Google font. Her work has earned her notable recognition, including being selected as one of the artists leading transformational efforts in gender equity at the 2021 Generation Equality Forum, for her work with Black Girls Glow. She was also honored as one of six African artists featured in Hennessy’s All I Need campaign, which celebrates artists creating meaningful change through their craft.

Tutor: Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist. An alumna of the Barbican Young Poets and recipient of an Eric Gregory award, Victoria has held residencies in the US, Brazil and the V&A Museum in London. Her debut pamphlet, Girl B, was published by the African Poetry Book Fund in 2017. She is the recipient of a Techne scholarship for doctoral research at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her debut collection, Quiet, was published by Faber in 2022. It was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and won the Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize.

Tutor: Roger Robinson, The Critically Acclaimed Author Of A Portable Paradise, A Stirring Collection Which Won Both The T.S. Eliot Prize And The Royal Society Of Literature Ondaatje Prize In 2019 & 2020, respectively.
His most recent collection for Home Is Not A Place, published by William Collins, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards in 2022. His book The Butterfly Hotel was shortlisted for the 2014 OCM Bocas Poetry Prize, The Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize & was highly commended by the Forward Poetry Prize in 2013 & his 2nd poetry collection, Suckle, won the Peoples Book Prize in 2010. He has been chosen by Decibel as one of 50 writers who have influenced the black-British writing canon.

Tutor: Lorna Goodison She was the first female poet laureate of Jamaica 2017-2020, and was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2019. She has won many awards for her work, including the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Poetry from Yale University and one of Canada’s largest literary prizes, the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People (2007). Goodison has written fifteen collections of poetry and three collections of short stories. Lorna Goodison is Professor Emerita at University of Michigan, where she was the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies