Ellah Wakatama Editor

Ellah Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL, is the Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University, and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. She was the founding Publishing Director of the Indigo Press.

Momtaza Mehri is a Somali-British poet and essayist. She has won an Eric Gregory Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Manchester Poetry Prize, and the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry.