Alysa Levene 

Alysa read Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford, and is now a professional historian and Reader at Oxford Brookes University. She has written several academic books on the history of child health and. Her first trade book, Cake: A Slice of History – a lively examination of cake and what it can tell us about ourselves and our past – was published by Headline in the UK and Pegasus in the US in 2016 (This book is a treat’ — Sunday Times). She lives in Leamington Spa.