Nikki Bi

Nikki has been a judge for the MFest Short Story Prize, a longlist judge for the Jericho Prize, celebrating Black-British new writing for children and more recently a judge for the Klaus Flugge Prize celebrating the work of illustrators in children’s books.

Nikki is the Co-Founder at CIVIC SQUARE, Birmingham demonstrating neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social, ecological, economic, and climate transition.

Nikki has been the recipient of the inaugural PPC award for Librarian of the Year when she worked at Birmingham Libraries and also the inaugural Reader in Residence at Birmingham Literature Festival. At CIVIC SQUARE, Nikki utilises the medium of books and reading to share inclusive experiences and to make complex ideas accessible, for readers of all generations and backgrounds to have the agency and literacy to dream and imagine a better world around them.

Nikki is a member of an Impact on Urban Health Advisory Group exploring how a shift in power across the organisation can incorporate and embed place and neighbourhood based learnings in the delivery of services within their children's mental health programme. Having an interest and commitment to all things access, representation and inclusion, Nikki is also the chair of the Board of Trustees at Writing West Midlands, the literature development agency for the region.