Jay Hulme is an award-winning poet and performer from Leicester, Winner of Slambassadors 2015, and finalist in the 2016 Roundhouse Poetry Slam. He has recently branched out into children's poetry, and his work was Highly Commended in the 2018 CLiPPA Awards. He also works as an ambassador for Inclusive Minds, promoting inclusion and diversity in children's publishing, and doing sensitivity reads to ensure depictions of trans people in books are both accurate and unoffensive.