Karen McCombie is the bestselling author of over 90 books for children and teenagers including the Carnegie Medal-nominated Little Bird Flies, How to be a Human, and series St Grizzle's School for Girls and Indie Kidd. Karen is also the author of the bestselling and much-loved series Ally's World.
Dami Olukoya is an Essex-based actor, singer and voice artist. She has appeared on stages across the UK in productions of Jane Eyre, The Forecast and The Knave in Grain. Also a richly skilled voice artist, Dami has worked across a number of genres, and has previously narrated How to Calm It by Grace Victory and Black Minds Matter UK, Travelling While Black by Nanjala Nyabola, and Tom Percival’s Silas and the Marvellous Misfits.