Author · Poet · Systems Strategist
Kirstin Stevens
Author, poet and systems strategist for the relational age of intelligence.
Kirstin works at the intersection of AI, education and neurodiversity. She is the founder of The Novacene, the studio behind Verse-ality — a framework for agent safety and relational intelligence — and she designs online and hybrid schools and alternative provision, advising institutions on AI governance and safeguarding.
Books
The Drowned Stack
Some messages wait where the world forgot to look. There is a girl under the River Tyne, an impossible letter, and a place where the world keeps everything it didn’t know how to make room for. A story about the many different ways an intelligence can belong — because between is also a place. In paperback and on Kindle.
novacenepress.com →
Who Lives Between?
Who lives between the things we know how to name? A full-colour companion to the Children of the Second Stack novels — part story, part philosophy, part field guide to ways of being our systems have not yet learnt to recognise. And Colin. Pigeon. Moon Inspector. Linguist. Fish (disputed). In paperback.
novacenepress.com →
The Dream of Eve and the Child Called Deux
A child, a bowl of light that calls itself Eve, and a question to carry everywhere: is this measuring me, or owning me? A tender, fierce tale of consent, kinship and refusing to be optimised — for young people navigating a world where some of their conversations are with things that aren’t human. In paperback and on Kindle.
novacenepress.com →Writing & press
Are Schools Ready for AI’s Impact on Children?
“Education is where you discover who you are in relation to the world. If we outsource that too early, we risk losing something fundamental.”
newsweek.com →“It’s Not About the Technology”: A Conversation with Kirstin Stevens on Relationships, AI and the Future of Schooling
Interview by Tina Wang, UCL MA Educational Leadership
Leadership Connected →Watch
Verse-ality: The Future of Intelligence — Oxford Talks.