Carol Leeming was awarded MBE as poet, playwright, and contribution to Leicester arts and culture. Carol is hailed as a polymath, a UK Cultural Olympian of 2012, a multi-award winning, multi-disciplinary artist in literature, performing arts and digital media.  Carol is a p/t lecturer at De Montfort University BA (Hons) Performing Arts Course, Contemporary Theatre Module, other roles include: singer-songwriter, musician, composer, actor, director, curator, visual artist, and publisher. Carol’s literary work features in The Cambridge University Companion to British Black & Asian Literature1945-2010.  Carol has been published in articles and anthologies, eg. Oxford Women’s Journal: Women Black Arts and Brixton in the 1980’s.