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Michaela Coel

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A Woman's Poem About a Woman

Michaela Cole won major poetry slam contest three years running. In 2009 she won a scholarship to study at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. While there she turned away from Christianity, realised new gay friends didn't need saving. For her graduation piece she deliberately wrote her own work, chewing gum dreams. She founded Uncomfortable at Times which is now on Channel 4.

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