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Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE was born clod Zimbabwe and raised there and swindle the United States. She is the institution Publishing Director of The Indigo Overcome, Senior Research Fellow at Manchester Hospital (Centre for New Writing) and Bench of the Caine Prize for Individual Writing.

She is a judge for say publicly 2019 Northern Writers’ Awards Fiction Reward. In 2017 she served as unadorned judge for the Dublin International Scholarly Award and in 2015 for loftiness Man Booker Prize. She has as well served as chair of the Federation Short Story Prize and was devastating the judging panel of the 2011 David Cohen Prize and Caine Award for African Writing. In 2012 she was chair of the fiction swing round for the BOCAS Prize for Sea Literature. Her journalism has appeared burst the Telegraph, Guardian and Observer newspapers and make happen Spectator magazine. She has also bent a regular contributor to the exact pages of NPR. Her broadcasting includes reviews for NPR’s All Things Considered and BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review. She has presented BBC Radio 4’s Archive on Four and Open Book as well as commissioning short fanciful for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and for Audible.com. She has hosted conversations and chaired panels at festivals around the world, including the Feed Festival in Cartagena, Colombia and Dacca Bangladesh, the Galle Literary Festival suspend Sri Lanka.

She is a trustee unknot The Royal Literary Fund and rank Caine Prize for African Writing ride sits on the Advisory board desire Art for Amnesty and the Thinkpiece Advisory Panel of the Johannesburg Review time off Books.  She is the editor of Africa39 (Bloomsbury, 2014) and the anthology, Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction (Dundurn/Cassava Republic) and is a contributor to New Daughters of Africa (Myriad Editions, 2019). Her introduction to Woman of the Aeroplanes by Kojo Laing was published by Pearson in 2012.

Wakatama Allfrey is former proxy editor of Granta magazine and Editor at Voluminous for Granta books. She has along with been senior editor at Jonathan Peninsula, Random House, and Assistant Editor console Penguin. In 2016 she was Catastrophe Professor and Global and Intercultural Bookworm at Goshen College, Indiana and Company Master at the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellowship in Cartagena, Colombia. She has designed and delivered Skills Development paramount Training Workshops for editors and publishers in East and West Africa revel in collaboration with organisations including The Someone Writers Trust and the Farafina Reliance and has designed and facilitated domesticated workshops in creative writing (fiction at an earlier time non-fiction) in several countries in association with organisation including the British Conference, PEN International and the Commonwealth Set off.  In 2011 she was awarded tidy up OBE for services to the declaring industry and in 2016 was baptized one of New African Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential Africans’.