Vanessa Kisuule is a writer, performer and facilitator based in Bristol. She has won over ten slam titles and performed nationally and internationally. She has been featured on BBC iPlayer, Radio 1, Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Blue Peter and TEDx in Vienna. She was the Bristol City Poet for 2018-2020 and her poem on the toppling of Edward Colston's statue Hollow went viral on Twitter. She has two poetry collections with Burning Eye Books and was Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prize Anthology 2019. She is the co-tutor for the Southbank New Poets Collective 2021/2022 and is currently working on an essay collection and her debut novel.