Paula Akpan Editor & Author

Paula Akpan (she/her) is a Black British historian and writer who gained a distinction in her fully funded MA in Black British History and who has credits in Vogue, Teen Vogue, The Independent, Stylist, VICE, i-D, Bustle, Time Out London and more. She is a published essayist, having written an essay on Black women and community in the anthology Loud Black Girls (4th Estate Books, 2020) and another on Black British lesbians in The Queer Bible (HQ, 2021). This is her debut book.