About our guests
Nicolas Puzenat is a French graphic novelist.
After studying literature, he taught in France, Belgium and Latin America – notably Buenos Aires, where his first graphic novel, Espèces invasives, is set, published in 2019 by Éditions Sarbacane.
In 2021, he published MégaFauna, a critically acclaimed philosophical fable selected for the Utopiales and Angoulême festivals. The second part of MégaFauna, Le Livre des délices et des infortunes, was published last year by Sarbacane.
Una is a writer and artist, author of four graphic novels: Eve (2021, Virago Press), Becoming Unbecoming (2015, Myriad Editions), On Sanity: One Day In Two Lives (2017) and The Cree (2018, Mayfly Press). Her first book Becoming Unbecoming has been widely translated, adapted into a play in Brazil, awarded a Prix Artemisia in France, and is taught in schools and universities around the world. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and Radio 3 Free Thinking. Una has a Ph.D and did post-doctoral research as a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing. Una’s community projects explore creative life story work with groups and individuals who have important stories to tell. She works from a garden shed in Leeds and is currently working on her first prose novel with support from SOA.
