​To contact the team, please email
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founder, publisher & lead editor

Alexandros Plasatis

fiction editors

Rubina Cuka-Smalley (née Bala)
Asiye Betül

poetry editor

Amir Darwish

non-fiction editors

Maria Rovisco
Elahe Ziai

'other tongue, mother tongue' editors

Mike Baynham (lead)
Lina Fadel
Mahima Kaur
Laura Racioppi

design & art direction

Olivier Llouquet

editorial assistant & submissions manager

Grace Cowie

social media

Lekshmi Chandran Sheeja

post room

Mostafa Belaassri

project consultant

Isabel Medem

fundraising & partnerships

Julia Rampen

'other tongue, mother tongue' reviewers

Abhirami S (Tamil & Marathi); Anne Philip Collins (Gujarati); Annie Liones Nguyen (Vietnamese); Antoine Cassar (Maltese); Arman Rahman​ (Pashto); Aslandek Dadaev (Chechen & Ingush); Atar J Hadari (Hebrew); B. Anne Adriaens (Dutch); Bänoo Zan (Persian); Barlow Crassmont (Croatian & Bosnian); Chris Moseley (Estonian); Ebele Mogo (Igbo & Nigerian Pidgin English); Edward Gunawan (Indonesian); Emine Sheykhametova (Tatar); Ena Jansen (Africaans); Eric Abalajon (Filipino, Hiligaynon & Kinaray-a); Fahri Oz (Turkish); Filippa N. Johansen (Danish); Gabriele Uboldi (Italian); George Gachara (Kikuyu); H.T.  Brickner (Mandarin); Hafeez Ul Hassan (Urdu); Ildegrada da Costa Cabral (Portuguese); James Garza (Japanese); Janneke Adema (Frisian); Jiyar Homer (Kurdish); Kafui Kenneth (Eʋe); Kari-Lee Grant (Jamaican Creole); Kasia Kokowska (Polish); Kayode Gomes (Yoruba); Khanyi Gumpo (SiNdebele); Lena Rissmann (German); Lina Fadel (Arabic); Lorato Trok (Setswana); Madalena Daleziou (Greek); Mahima Kaur (Hindi & Punjabi); Maryna Krazhova (Belarusian, Ukrainian & Russian); Masimba Musodza (ChiShona); Mohammed Amin (Rohingya); Moossa Casseem (Mauritian Creole); Mumo Liku (Kiikamba & Swahili); Nabeela Ahmed (Pahari); Natalia Bukia Peters (Georgian); Pamela Kasera-Odhiambo (Dholuo); Rifat Mahbub (Bangla); Roxana Cazan (Romanian); Roxana Crisólogo Correa (Spanish); Rubina Bala (Albanian); Sari Pöyhönen (Finnish & Swedish); Sophie Buchaillard (French); Syed Muhammad Hassan Zaidi (Panjabi, Urdu script); Tara Goldsmith (Serbian & Montenegrin); Tesfalem Habte Yemane (Tigrinya); Tim Tim Cheng (Cantonese); Timea Sipos (Hungarian); Vaishnavi Raikar (Konkani); Votey Cheav (Khmer); Yin F Lim (Malay).

past editors

Hansa Dasgupta, fiction editor (2021-2022); Parang Khezri, video editor (2022-2024); Malka Al-Haddad, poetry editor (2021-2024).

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