Author: Bernardine Evaristo

Susheila Nasta MBE is Editor-in-Chief of Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing she founded in 1984. A literary activist, writer and presenter, she has published widely on postcolonial and contemporary writing, and is co-editor of the first Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing. She was appointed MBE in 2011 for her services to black and Asian literature. In 2019 she was elected an Honorary Fellow by the Royal Society of Literature and awarded the Benson Medal for a lifetime of exceptional service to the subject. She is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literatures at Queen Mary University of London and Emerita at the Open University. She lives in Greenwich in London.