Fen Coles
Fen Coles is co-director of Letterbox Library, a 32-year-old children's booksellers and workers' cooperative, specialising in inclusive, diverse and representative children's books. Fen has worked at Letterbox Library since 2005 and she is primarily responsible for sourcing new titles and coordinating a review team of 25 volunteer readers. Prior to this, she worked for 12 years in the charity sector, largely in the areas of women’s, LGBTQ and prisoners’/ex-offenders’ rights. She has an MA and PhD in Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies from Warwick University where she also taught 'Lesbian Cultural Studies' to adult returners.