1918 Allotment – Guest Speaker Biographies
Dr. Yewande Okuleye’s interdisciplinary practice in health humanities, science and qualitative research design, investigates methods and systems which reveal and recover overlooked, misrepresented, and forgotten histories. This praxis is informed by Audre Lorde’s call for us “to speak truth to power,” to activate civic empowerment. Yewande invokes art, music, poetry, and performance, as channels, to encourage discussions about power, representation, and change.
Laura Theis grew up in Germany and writes poems, stories and songs in her second language. She is the author of ‘how to extricate yourself’ (Dempsey&Windle) which was selected as the winner of the 2020 Brian Dempsey Memorial Pamphlet Prize. Her work has been widely anthologised, and appears in journals such as Rattle, Strange Horizons and Mslexia. An AM Heath Prize recipient and Elgin Award nominee, she has also won the Hammond House International Literary Award and the 2020 Mogford Short Story Prize.
See JC Niala and Eleanor Greenhalgh’s project pages below for their biographies and further info.
