Lisette Auton
Lisette Auton works with words in all their forms: as an author and playwright, a film and theatre maker, a performer, a solo artist, with collaborators, and alongside wonderful humans as a creative practitioner and mentor. Disabled, neurodivergent and northern, some say she’s a word artist, she says she does stuff with words. Her debut middle grade novel The Secret of Haven Point was published by Puffin in February 2022, The Stickleback Catchers followed in February 2023, with Lights Up forthcoming in spring 2024. She is an award-winning poet; the 2019 Early Careers Fellow for Literature at Cove Park; on the TSS Publishing list of Best British & Irish Flash Fiction; and winner of The Journal Culture Award 2021 for Performance of the Year for Writing the Missing – A River Cycle commissioned by Durham Book Festival.