Staff

Sana Goyal is the Editor and Publishing Director of Wasafiri. She has an MA in Postcolonial Studies and a PhD in literary prizes from SOAS, University of London.

Elizabeth has a background working in arts organisations focusing on new writing, project management, and live literature events.

Vamika Sinha is an arts and culture critic and Deputy Editor of Wasafiri. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from SOAS, University of London and is a Senior Editor at the South Asian Avant-Garde Anthology and co-founder of Postscript, a now archived literary and arts publication based out of the UAE.

Farah Ali is the writer of the novels Telegraphy and The River, The Town, and the short-story collection People Want to Live. Her work has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions, and has appeared in Shenandoah, Kenyon Review, Ecotone, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is the cofounder of Lakeer, and an editor at Wasafiri.

Cassie Lawrence is a journalist and content editor. She has worked for various literary organisations with a global outlook, including Saqi Books and Asia House. Alongside her work she has volunteered for free-speech advocates English PEN and literature site, Asymptote Journal, among others.

Leon is Professor of Art History at The Open University. Along with a range of edited and co-edited books on modern and contemporary art and aesthetics, museums and curating, cultural policy and anthropology, he is the author of Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (Manchester 2011) and Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art (Liverpool 2017).

Francesca is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UCL. Her research project explores literary representations of the ecological crisis in everyday life, with a specific focus on forms of ecological duration and slow violence. Her broader interests include creative-critical practices and multilingual writing.

Ruilin is a LAHP-funded PhD candidate in Translation Studies at UCL. After 7 years studying Swahili, his research now sits at the intersection of translation, history, literature, and politics, examining Swahili translations of Chinese books in the 1960–70s and their role in Sino-Tanzanian decolonial solidarities.

Alice Harry is an artist, writer, and PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art. Informed by black, queer, feminist scholarship, her research asks how citation might speak with and speak back; questioning how/whose knowledge is signalled and summoned across texts through time.

Rolando is a Doctoral researcher at Birkbeck College, University of London. His interdisciplinary project explores the ways in which speculative fiction intervenes in contemporary debates linking food security and ecological collapse.