Dr Nathalie Teitler [she/her] has promoted inclusivity in British arts, particularly literature, for 30 years. She has a PhD in Latin American literature and has years of experience in developing the British Latinx/Latin American community. She founded UNS British Latinx writers organisation with Argentinian British poet, Leo Boix and they co-edited the first anthology of British Latin writers in English. She was shortlisted for a Sky Arts Award and is currently writing a novel and a novella.

Mónica Ibarra Parle [she/her] grew up between southeast Texas and the Chihuahuan desert. She’s a fourth-generation migrant, now living in the UK, and is Co-Executive Director of Forward Arts Foundation (the Forward Prizes and the UK's National Poetry Day) and Associate Director of Un Nuevo Sol. She’s a member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop and won the 2022 Mslexia Short Story Competition. Extracts from her works-in-progress have been short-listed for the 2024 and 2021 Bridport and the 2021 Wasafiri Queen Mary Prize. She’s published in Best Women’s Short Fiction 2022, The Bridport Prize Anthology (2021 and 2024), Mslexia, and Wasafiri.