Author of "Swearing is Good for You" and "How to Build a Human" - Emma Byrne is a broadcaster, public speaker, teacher, and former robot scientist. Described as 'playfully astute' she loves bringing research to life.

Georgie Codd has worked behind the scenes at a funeral parlour, taught English in a Himalayan nunnery, edited publications for the Tibetan Government in Exile, and shadowed drug dealers in Florida City. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's Prose-writing MA, where her flash fiction won the Seth Donaldson Bursary. Her first book, We Swim to the Shark, was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Georgie is the founder of the online literary festival BookBound 2020, which was created during lockdown in aid of the mental health charity Mind.