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About Jamie Windust
Jamie is an award winning LGBTQ+ writer, editor and author. As former Contributing Editor at GAY TIMES, they have spent 9 years writing within the LGBTQ+ space across film, TV and culture, politics and news. Their debut book In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life was published in 2020 with Jessica Kinglsey Publishers and details their life as a non-binary person living in the UK.
As a writer, they have written for the likes of Metro UK, The Independent, Digital Spy, ELLE and have appeared in British Vogue, ELLE, HUNGER and other global fashion and culture publications.
Their favourite meal is toad in the hole, followed by apple crumble and they drink approximately 4 cups of tea per day.
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