Speak Back: The Tutors

Taylor Edmonds is a writer, poet and creative facilitator from Barry. Taylor’s debut poetry pamphlet Back Teeth is published with Broken Sleep Books. Taylor is the founder of Writing for Joy, a series of writing workshops and courses centred around wellbeing. Taylor was previously Poet in Residence for the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, exploring the role of creativity in the climate emergency. She has received a Rising Stars Award from Literature Wales and Firefly Press for her writing for young people. Taylor is currently working on her debut YA fiction novel.

Kandace Siobhan Walker, a writer and artist of Jamaican-Canadian, Saltwater Geechee and Welsh heritage, is also the author of Kaleido, published by Bad Betty Press in 2022. In 2021, she was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and the winner of The White Review Poet’s Prize. In 2019, she won the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize. Her poetry book Cowboy (Cheerio, 2023) won the poetry category Wales Book of the Year award 2024.