Jessica Wilson is an award-winning author, representation advocate and founder of Tallawah Publishing, a British-Jamaican independent publishing company founded in response to the need for diversity in the industry. She has been shortlisted for the 2017 Aesthetica Creative Writing award and is the winner of a Go Fund Me award for Sofia the Dreamer and Her Magical Afro, a fantasy-poem unravelling the history of natural hairstyles and encouraging children to love all of who they are. Jessica has an MA in Creative Writing from the prestigious University of Cambridge.