Abbas Faiz Abbas Faiz is a poet, translator and human rights expert. He writes poems in both Persian and English and his poems have been published online and in print. He has also read them to audiences in the UK and abroad. In addition, Abbas has translated into English poems from the 13th Century [...]

Soraya Fernandez DF Soraya Fernandez DF is an Ecuadorian poet, textile/ multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in London. She is part of the group Letreando en Quito, with whom she has published two anthologies with The House of Ecuadorian Culture Quito- Ecuador (2017 & 2022). She published Agujeros (Holes) 2022 London, a collection [...]

Joan Ferguson I was born in St Ann, Jamaica, came to England to join my mother, stepfather, one older brother who came to England several years before me, a younger one. My mother was expecting another child who was born just after a month after my arrival in the UK. I attended secondary school [...]

Predrag Finci Predrag Finci, born in Sarajevo in 1946, he is in exile in London. He completed Gymnasium, Drama Studio and Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo, and a two year Counselling Course in London. He also studied at the University of Paris X (under Mikele Dufrenne) and in Freiburg (under Werner Marx). He completed [...]

Fouad M. Fouad is a poet and public health physician. Currently, he works as a professor at the American University in Beirut and a senior researcher at King’s College London. In 1980, Fouad was one of a group of younger Syrian writers to participate in the formation of the Aleppo University Forum, a group [...]

Miriam Frank Miriam Frank was born in Barcelona, Spain, the year the Spanish Civil War broke out. Both her parents were émigrés, her mother having defected from her native Germany on Hitler's rise to power, while her father had left his adoptive country, the U.S., which he had reached in his childhood from Lithuania. The fall [...]

Abol Froushan Abol was set off on his vocation of writing by an encounter in 1983 and has since been pursuing a career in writing, performing, recording, translating poetry for events, video and audio recording, and publications in collaboration with literary artistic organisations. So in 2001 Abol was Poet in Resident at the BBC [...]

Omar García-Obregón Omar García-Obregón is a Cuban born, British-American academic, award-winning poet and a human rights activist of Spanish descent. He is a Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Poetics at Queen Mary University of London. His new poetry collection is Fronteras: ¿el azar infinito? (Leiden: Bokeh, October 2018) Borders: An Infinite Game of [...]

Leesa Gazi Leesa Gazi is a writer, actor,TEDx speaker, and voice artist. Among her many achievements are: Working as a voice artist for Akram Khan’s ‘Desh’; Script interpreter in the 2012 Globe to Globe festival at the Globe Theatre on ‘The Tempest’; Acting in ‘Whisper Me Happy Ever After’ (Face Front Theatre), a play [...]

Yaseen Ghaleb Yaseen Ghaleb is an Iraqi writer who has been based in Helsinki, Finland since 2015. In 2005 he graduated with a Bachelor of English Arts from the University of Basra, Iraq. He is a writer of prose, articles and poetry and he is interested in pursuing dramatic writing. He published a novel [...]