Andrew Kaye Kauffmann is a coach, a writer and a teacher of creative writing. He is the Centre for Mental Health´s Writer-In-Residence. He leads London Lit Lab´s Queer Storytelling course, and facilitates courses for Out on the Page and The Write Salon on writing from life and writing challenging material. He was shortlisted in 2022 for The Literary Consultancy's Pen Factor award. He was a winner of the 2021 Spread the Word and Scribe UK competition for works of narrative non-fiction and in 2020 he was a winner of The Literary Consultancy’s LGBT+ Free Reads competition.