K Allado-McDowell Author & Editor

K Allado-McDowell works in the overlap between music, language, technology and healing. With twenty years of experience translating between technical and cultural worlds, Allado-McDowell is a sought-after speaker and consultant to cultural, artistic, and technological institutions that desire to align their work with larger traditions of human understanding. Allado-McDowell established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI, bringing artists and philosophers into collaboration with machine learning researchers to develop research strategy and policy for emerging AI technology. Allado-McDowell records and releases music under the name Qenric. Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Irenosen is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize For Fiction for her story, ‘Grace Jones’ published in Nudibranch, her third book published by Dialogue Books in 2019. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular, published by Jacaranda Books, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She lives in east London.