Mind Your Head

Juno Dawson (Author) Juno Dawson is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and a columnist for Attitude Magazine. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, The Pool, Dazed and the Guardian. She has appeared on Pointless Celebrities, BBC Women's Hour, Front Row, ITV News, Channel 5 News, This Morning and Newsnight. Juno's books include the global bestsellers This Book is Gay and Clean. She won the 2020 YA Book Prize for Meat Market. She also writes for television and has multiple shows in development both in the UK and US. An occasional actress and model, Juno had a cameo in the BBC's I May Destroy You (2020) and played Vicky in Holby City (2021). Juno grew up in West Yorkshire, writing imaginary episodes of Doctor Who. She later turned her talent to journalism, interviewing luminaries such as Steps and Atomic Kitten, before writing a weekly serial in a Brighton newspaper. Juno lives in Brighton. She is a part of the queer cabaret collective known as Club Silencio. In 2014, Juno became a School Role Model for the charity Stonewall. Olivia Hewitt (Author) Dr Olivia Hewitt is a clinical psychologist who has worked in the NHS since 2003. After meeting co-author Juno Dawson whilst at university in north Wales she went on to train at the University of Oxford. Since then she has specialised in working with people with a learning disability as well as writing for academic journals and lecturing at the universities of Southampton and Oxford. Outside of work, Olivia can be found reading detective novels and helping out on the farm. She lives with her husband in Oxfordshire. Gemma Correll (Illustrator) Illustrator Gemma Correll is one of the few people in the universe who has managed to turn her love of pugs into a lucrative career. She has exhibited all over the world, in China, the US and Europe, and was the recipient of a Young Guns award from the Art Directors Club of New York in 2010. She's a serial punner with a crush on all things cartooney and studied Graphic Design in Norwich. Her favourite colour is turquoise, her star sign is Aquarius and her favourite word Albuquerque, just in case you were wondering. Follow Gemma on Twitter: @gemmacorrell.