Mónica Ibarra Parle is Co-Executive Director of Forward Arts Foundation and Associate Director of El Nuevo Sol: British Latinx Writers. She was previously Executive Director of First Story, the young people’s writers’ development charity. She is on the Board of the World of Books Foundation, and she’s a fiction writer, having won the Mslexia 2022 Short Story Competition, and her work has been published in The Bridport Anthology 2024, Best Women’s Short Fiction 2022, The Bridport Anthology 2021, and Wasafiri.
