Theodore Forcer (they/them) is a spoken word artist and poet based in North East England. Theodore is part of generation 12 of The Writing Squad. Their work explores queerness, histories (both real and imagined) and disability. They have been published in the Gentian, Agapanthus and Recesses, and they were commended in the Hive Young Writers competition. They also feature in the Narrative Shift online exhibition. Theodore was recently selected as Hartlepool’s 2026 reader-in-residence for the Crossing the Tees Book Festival.