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Our Writers

Our directory will help you find any writer, past or present, who has worked as an RLF Fellow. Learn more about their career, how they work with us, and where they operate in the UK. You can also find any articles they may have written for us through their profiles.

Sally Kindberg
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Sally Kindberg

Sally Kindberg is an author, illustrator and comic strip maker who has written and illustrated more than thirty children’s nonfiction…

Richard King
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Richard King

Richard King is an acclaimed cultural historian, whose work focuses on the intersections of identity, subculture and place. His first…

Todd Kingsley-Jones
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Todd Kingsley-Jones

Todd Kingsley-Jones was born and grew up in South Africa. He always wanted to be a writer, in between wanting…

Sophie Kirtley
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Sophie Kirtley

Sophie Kirtley is a prizewinning poet and children’s author. Her writing is adventurous, heartfelt and lyrical, drawing inspiration from the…

Image credit: Sara Bain|Bill Kirton
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Bill Kirton

Bill Kirton is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, stage and radio plays and five books on study, work…

Ali Knight
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Ali Knight

Ali Knight is a novelist and journalist. Her four contemporary, stand-alone crime novels are set in London. A proponent of…

Lynne Knight
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Lynn Knight

Lynn Knight is interested in the larger narratives behind ordinary lives, most particularly the lives of women. Her biography, Clarice…

Annette Kobak
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Annette Kobak

Annette Kobak is a writer and occasional broadcaster whose most recent book Joe’s War: my father decoded was read as…

Hanna Komar
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Hanna Komar

Hanna Komar is a poet, translator and writer from Belarus, now based in London. She has published five poetry collections:…

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Christina Koning

Christina Koning is a novelist and short-story writer. She has worked as a travel writer and book reviewer for the…

Josh Lacey credit Sophie Sitwell
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Josh Lacey

Josh Lacey is the author of more than 40 books for children, which have been published around the world and…

Daisy Lafarge by Izzy Leach
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Daisy Lafarge

Daisy Lafarge is a writer and artist living in Glasgow. She is the author of the novel Paul (Granta, 2021;…

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Helen Lamb

Helen Lamb was an award-winning short-story writer and poet. She published a short-story collection, Superior Bedsits, and a poetry collection, Strange Fish.…

Richard Lambert
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Richard Lambert

Richard Lambert is a prizewinning writer of fiction and poetry. His debut novel The Wolf Road (Everything with Words, 2020),…

Elena Lappin
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Elena Lappin

Elena Lappin is a novelist and journalist. She is the author of a collection of stories, Foreign Brides (Picador, 1999),…

Frances Larson
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Frances Larson

Frances Larson is an anthropologist who writes about the past. Her biography of Henry Wellcome, An Infinity of Things: how…

|Carol Lee
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Carol Lee

Carol is an author who began her career as a journalist working in national newspapers, radio and television. She is…

Tom Lee
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Tom Lee

Tom Lee is a short-story writer and novelist. His critically acclaimed debut novel The Alarming Palsy of James Orr, published…

Amber Lee Dodd
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Amber Lee Dodd

Amber Lee Dodd is an award-winning children’s author and short-story writer. Her work includes the critically acclaimed novels We Are…

Carol Leeming
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Carol Leeming

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I was born in Leicester of Windrush parents from Jamaica. I grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, then returned to Leicester.…

Sarah Le Fanu|
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Sarah LeFanu

Sarah LeFanu’s 2012 memoir/biography of postcolonial Africa S Is for Samora: a lexical biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican…

Joan Lennon
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Joan Lennon

Joan Lennon became a full-time writer in 2007 and has recently had her twentieth novel published. She writes long and…

Maureen Lennon credit James Mulkeen
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Maureen Lennon

Maureen Lennon is a scriptwriter mainly working in theatre. She is interested in work which experiments with form and explores…

Lucy Lethbridge
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Lucy Lethbridge

Lucy Lethbridge is a journalist and author, specialising in popular history books for adults and children. After many years working…