About the Author: Darren Chetty

Darren Chetty was born in Swansea and currently lives in London. He is a lecturer at University College, London. He taught in primary schools for 20 years. In 2022, he co-edited Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales (Repeater) and a special issue of Wasafiri entitled ‘Reimaging Education’. He is a contributor to the bestselling book, The Good Immigrant (Unbound). Darren is co-author of What Is Masculinity? Why Does It Matter? And Other Big Questions (Wayland) and How To Disagree: Negotiating Difference in a Divided World (Quarto) and co-editor of Critical Philosophy of Race and Education (Routledge). Darren writes, with Karen Sands O’Connor, a regular column for Books for Keeps examining racially minorised characters in children’s literature, entitled Beyond the Secret Garden.