The Wasafiri Team

Sana Goyal
Editor & Publishing Director
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. She was formerly Deputy Editor at Wasafiri, Publicity Manager at Tilted Axis Press, and Marketing and Outreach Officer at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal. Her reviews have appeared in The Guardian, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Poetry Review, Vogue India, and elsewhere. She was a judge for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize and is a judge for the 2025 International Booker Prize.

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

Vamika Sinha
Deputy Editor
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. Born in India and raised in Botswana, she now lives in London, and considers the UAE another home. Vamika is also 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. She regularly publishes arts criticism in several publications including Aesthetica, Canvas, Art Africa, The Polis Project, and more. Find her at vamikasinha.com

Cassie Lawrence
Digital Co-ordinator
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 Wainwright
Art Editor
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).

Farah Ali
Reviews Editor
Farah Ali (she/her) is the writer of the novel, The River, The Town and the short-story collection, People Want to Live. Her work has been anthologised in the Pushcart Prize and the Best Small Fictions, and has appeared in Shenandoah, Kenyon Review, Ecotone, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere. She is the cofounder of Lakeer, an online journal from Pakistan. She lives in London where she writes and edits.

Sophia Arnold
CHASE Intern
Sophia Arnold is a CHASE-funded PhD Candidate in the Department of English at the University of Kent in collaboration with the human rights organisation, Incomindios UK. Her research explores art and artistic practice within Indigenous-led environmental justice campaigns and movements in North America.

Divya Ghelani
CHASE Intern
Divya Ghelani was born in Gujarat and grew up in Loughborough, Leicestershire. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and an MPhil in Literary Studies from the University of Hong Kong.

Prerana Kumar
LAHP Placement Holder
Prerana Kumar (they/them) is an Indian writer and editor based in London. They won the Rebecca Swift Foundation’s Women Poet’s Prize 2022. They are currently reading for a doctorate in Creative Writing at QMUL. Their debut pamphlet, Ixora is out with Guillemot Press.