Debjani Chatterjee is an award-winning poet, has written, edited or translated over 60 books for children and adults. A cancer survivor, who believes strongly in the therapeutic power of reading and writing, she’s a patron of Survivors’ Poetry and founded the Healing Word support group. Her work has won major awards, including Sheffield Hallam University’s honorary doctorate ‘for outstanding contribution to Literature, the Arts and community service’, and an MBE in 2008. She was selected, in the Arts and Culture category, to be an Olympic Torchbearer in 2012.