Maria Jastrzębska was born in Warsaw, Poland and lives in Brighton. Poet, editor and translator, she co-edited Queer in Brighton (New Writing South 2014) and translated Justyna Bargielska’s The Great Plan B (Smokestack 2017). A new collection The True Story of Cowboy Hat and Ingénue is out this autumn (Liquorice Fish 2018). June [...]

Mahmood Jamal Mahmood Jamal was born in Lucknow, India, in 1948. He came to Britain from Pakistan in 1967. His poems have been published in the London Magazine and broadcast on BBC Radio and he has performed at leading poetry venues in London and around the UK. He has also featured in several anthologies [...]

Racheal Joseph Born in London to an English mother and Antiguan father. She studied in England and Antigua and has BA (Hons) degree in English Studies from Nottingham University. Racheal has been an actress for nearly 40 years. Using those skills in schools and youth clubs to teach and support children and young adults [...]

Ziba Karbassi Ziba Karbassi was born in Tabriz, north-western Iran. She had to leave her country with her mother in the late 1980s when she was a young teenager; for most of the time since then she has lived in London. She has published ten books of poetry in Persian and two books in [...]

Mohammad Akbar Kargar I, Mohammad Akbar Kargar was born on 14/08/1953 in Kunar province of Afghanistan. I was seven years old when I went to a primary school in my own village called Mazar Valley. When I finished my primary school, I was admitted to Avecena High school I Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.In 1974 I [...]

Ghada Karmi Her memoir is entitled In Search of Fatima: a Palestinian Story and her new book is Married to Another Man, Pluto, June 2007. She is a research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, England. She was born in Jerusalem, but left with her family [...]

Vida Kashizadeh Vida Kashizadeh was born in Abadan, Iran and is a singer, poet and songwriter. She started writing poetry as a teenager and developed her song writing at a later stage. She has been in the UK since the late seventies. Poem Tonight I realised dogs are not allowed To die gradually. [...]

Abdulkareem Kasid Abdulkareem Kasid, born in 1946 in the city of Al-Basra, Iraq and later graduated in philosophy from Damascus University 1967 at the age of 21. I later went on to obtain an MA in translation from the University of Westminster, London (1995). My occupation for a great number of years was to [...]

Alia' Afif Sifri Kawalit Alia' Afif Sifri Kawalit was born in Jordan. She is currently a research postgraduate student under the supervision of Prof Janet Montefiore and Prof David Herd. Ms Kawalit is an associate lecturer at the Center of English and World Languages/ University of Kent. Previously, she worked as a lecturer at Petra [...]

Jeton Kelmendi Albanian poet Jeton Kelmendi was born in Peja in 1978. He completed primary and secondary school in his native town and his studies in Prishtina. He works in media in Kosova and co-operates with others abroad. Kelmendi is known for his articles on cultural matters. His poems are translated into various languages [...]