Contributors

Victoria Finlay is the critically acclaimed author of Colour – Travels Through the Paintbox and the former arts editor of the South China Morning Post. She studied social anthropology and has travelled around the world in search of stories about her subjects, from colour to jewels and fabric. As well as writing, she has worked in international development.

John Fisher worked with dogs professionally for more than 20 years. He was a regular contributor to What Dog? and Pet Dog magazines and is the author of Think Dog and Dogwise: The Natural Way to Train Your Dog.

Robert Fisher taught for over twenty years in schools in the UK, Africa and Hong Kong before becoming professor of Education at Brunel University. He has published over thirty books on education.

Alexander Fiske-Harrison was born 1976 and is an English writer and actor. He is best known for writing and acting in The Pendulum in London's West End and has contributed to Prospect, Frieze, The Times and Financial Times.

Pati Fizzano is a teacher who specialises in helping neurodiverse students to achieve their full potential.

Felix Flicker is a lecturer at the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University. Formerly the Astor Junior Research Fellow of Physics at New College Oxford and a Lindemann Trust Fellow at U.C. Berkeley, he holds a masters in Theoretical Physics from the Perimeter Institute — which he attended during Stephen Hawking's tenure — and a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of Bristol. He is the author of scienti?c papers in both Nature and Science as well as popular science articles. While he cannot claim credentials as a wizard, he has a black belt in Kung Fu and is also the former British Champion of Shuai Jiao (Chinese Wrestling).

John-Paul Flintoff is a feature writer for the Sunday Times, and author of Comp: a Survivor's Tale. As well as writing, he has worked as a bin man, executive PA, scuba diver, taxi driver, undertaker, amateur boxer and rat catcher. He lives in London with his wife, Harriet, and daughter, Nancy, whom he torments by making and wearing his own clothes.

Peter Florence is the director of the Hay Festivals and co-editor of OxCrimes.

Sam Florman is a writer as well as a practicing engineer and vice-president of Kreisler Borg Florman Construction Company. Florman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995, he is also a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the New York Academy of Sciences.

Twenty-eight years after his release from prison Leaf Fielding has been a teacher in Spain and a philanthropist, setting up a home for orphans in Malawi. He now sells organic produce in the region of the south of France where he lives.
His book, To Live Outside the Law, tells of his role in Britain's biggest drugs bust, Operation Julie, which inspired a Clash son.

Susan Finlay is an artist and writer. Recent and forthcoming projects include The Unruly Glove; The Green Bum and the Sickly Trickle, a series of poems published to coincide with Zoe Williams' exhibition of the same name at Galerie Antoine Levi; Objektophilia, a novella serialized in Egress magazine; The Brexit Chronicles, an audio-series for Ackerman Daly and Isadora, a solo exhibition at MoHA, Austin.