Laura Mucha
Laura Mucha is an ex-lawyer turned award-winning poet and Author-in-Residence in the Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge.
Her writing has won multiple international awards and her books have been described as ‘stunningly original’ by BookTrust, ‘illuminating’ and ‘fantastic’ by the Daily Mail, ‘brilliant’ by the Telegraph, ‘a must for every school library and classroom’ by The School Librarian, and a ‘marvellous feat’ by Richard Curtis.
She recently broke the Guinness World Records title for Largest Poetry Lesson (multi venue) together with 43,516 young people from over 500 schools around the world. Last year, her book Welcome to Our Table won Children’s Book of the Year 2024: Non-Fiction (The Week Junior) and she was the runner up for the Ruth Rendell Award for the author who’s had the most significant influence on literacy in the UK over the past year.
When not writing, Laura spends her time visiting schools around the world and working with organisations such as the Royal Society of Medicine, National Literacy Trust, Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, and UNICEF to try to improve the lives of children.
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