Author biographies
Gaar Adams is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow. His journalism has featured in The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and Rolling Stone. His manuscript is supported by Penguin Books’ WriteNow programme. Ayad Andrews was born in Baghdad, Iraq but, due to the volatile political situation, his family were forced to leave the country in 1971. He currently lives in Fareham, Hampshire. Krystle Zara Appiah is a British-Ghanaian writer, screenwriter and editor. Her debut novel, Rootless, was won at auction and will be published by The Borough Press in spring 2023. Helen Bain is a writer and editor from Sussex. She is a PhD candidate at King’s College London and working on a novel set in Devon in the 1960s. Naina Bajekal is a journalist based in London. She is an Executive Editor at TIME and is working on her first novel, which was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award (2020). Marta Bausells is a London Writers Award recipient and was a 2021 shortlistee at the Freelance Writing Awards. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ELLE, The Guardian and The Paris Review, among others.
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