Rebecca Abrams
Rebecca is an award-winning author and journalist. She teaches creative writing at Oxford University and is a former Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. She has published eight books of fiction and non-fiction, including Touching Distance (Picador, 2009), shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize for Literature and winner of the MJA Open Book Award for Fiction; When Parents Die (Taylor & Francis, 2012), and Licoricia of Winchester: Power and Prejudice in Medieval England (LOWA, 2022). She is the editor of two volumes of new writing for First Story, and co-editor of Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries (Bodleian, 2020), long-listed for the Wingate Literary Prize. A journalist of many years standing, she is the recipient of an Amnesty International Press Award for Journalism, and a regular book critic for the Financial Times.
Declan O’Driscoll
Declan O’Driscoll regularly reviews translated fiction for The Irish Times. He has also written reviews for the Dublin Review of Books, The TLS, the LA Review of Books and The London Magazine. His short stories have been published by Firmament and The London Magazine.
Sana Goyal
Sana Goyal is the Deputy and Reviews Editor at Wasafiri magazine. She was formerly Publicity Manager at Tilted Axis Press, Marketing and Outreach Officer at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, and Digital Editor at Wasafiri. She has a PhD in literary prizes from SOAS, University of London, and has been a prize judge for English PEN and the Orwell Foundation. Her criticism has appeared in The Guardian, the Los Angeles Review of Books, TLS, Poetry London, Vogue India, and elsewhere. She lives between Birmingham and Bombay.