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RukhsanaYasmin is an award-winning editor and a Bookseller Rising Star She has worked at independent publishers Saqi, Profile, Serpent?s Tail and Jacaranda Books H er freelance projects include editorial development and copy-editing services in fiction and nonfiction for several organisations, including V irago, Penguin, H arperCollins and Simon & Schuster. She is a former deputy editor ofW asafiriand Project O fficer at Commonwealth W riters. Rukhsana is a literary agent, most recently associate literary agent at The Good Literary A gency and a trustee of The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) www thegoodliteraryagency org/about/rukhsana/ rukhsanay@gmail.com t @rukhsana yasmin

She lives in London and is currently working on her own life writing.