Laura Jane Williams

Laura Jane Williams is the author of hotly anticipated survive-and-thrive heartbreak memoir Becoming (Hodder & Stoughton, June 2016), writes to 40,000 monthly readers on her blog, Superlatively Rude, and regularly contributes to national newspapers and magazines on the themes of speaking up, owning your voice, and messy humanness.

A prolific public speaker, Laura is the co-founder and host of IRL Panel, a discussion and networking event for women with a lot to say, at Twitter UK. The launch trended on Twitter and reached five million eyeballs across all social media.

Laura has recently wrapped up recording for the first season of “Becoming: The Podcast”, a “talk radio show” designed to share the rites-of-passage stories of accomplished women, and has a TV series in early development.