Lliana Bird is a writer, film maker, and co-founder of Choose Love. Baboo The Unusual Bee is her debut children's book. For adults, Lliana is the author of The Mice Who Sing For Sex (and Other Weird Tales From The World of Science), based on her comedic science podcast with Dr Jack Lewis.
Lliana started out as a radio DJ, and today holds the record as the longest standing female DJ on Xfm/ Radio X. She also contributed regularly to The Huffington Post, with her articles often going viral. Lliana has created and presented over 100 podcast episodes of Geek Chic's Weird Science and 3 series of female-led round table discussion podcast Get It Off Your Br**sts.
More recently, Liana has written and co-directed two short films, including the multi award-winning Snapshots which starred Paul Kaye and Mark Benton. As the co-founder of Choose Love, Lliana has been awarded various accolades, including being named as Foreign Policy's Top 100 Thinkers, and one of NESTA's New Radicals. She also hosted the London Peace Talks.
Today Lliana works as a writer of children's books and as a film maker. Lliana lives in London with her partner Noel and their two children.
Lliana is a writer, director, actress, podcaster and co-founder of charities Help Refugees and the Kindly Collective. She just happens to also be hilarious. For grown-ups, she and Dr Jack Lewis co-wrote The Mice Who Sing For Sex: And Other Weird Tales from the World of Science, based on their podcast. Baboo is her debut children's book.
Location: London, UK.
Illustrator Aysha Tengiz won her category (professional alternative publishing) in the 2020 World Illustration Awards and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, as cover art for Anorak magazine. It can also be found as a mural in Great Ormand Street hospital, on shirts, scarves and many, many other things. Baboo is her stunningly original debut book.
Location: London, UK.
