Our Team
Naush Sabah
Editor and Publishing Director
Naush is a writer, editor, and educator from the West Midlands. Heredity/ASTYNOME, a limited edition double micro-pamphlet box set, was published as a Legitimate Snack in 2020 and her debut pamphlet, Litanies, was published by Guillemot Press in 2021. Her writing has appeared in the TLS, PN Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Magma, and elsewhere. She is a trustee at Poetry London, and Co-founder and Editor at Large at Pallina Press. She completed an MA in Creative Writing, with Distinction, and is a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University. Her short play, Coins, was staged at The Rep and longlisted for the Pint Sized Plays competition (2019).
You can contact Naush with prose pitches or about any editorial and publishing matters related to PBLJ here. You can contact her about commissions, readings, and other events via her website.
Ibrahim Hirsi
Editorial Assistant
Ibrahim Hirsi is a student, writer and peer researcher for the Centre for Mental Health. A digital Somali cultural archivist and independent researcher; his writings explore the changes that occurred in Somali culture and society during colonialism and to the present day. His work has appeared in PBLJ and he has worked as a consultant on Asmaa Jama’s interactive short film Before We Disappear.
You can contact Hirsi with any queries about orders, submissions or general matters relating to PBLJ here.
Sana Goyal
Marketing and Outreach
Sana Goyal is a PhD candidate in literary prize cultures at SOAS, University of London. Previously Digital Editor, she now serves as an Associate Editor at Wasafiri. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including The Guardian, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brixton Review of Books, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Poetry London, Wasafiri, Mint Lounge, India, and Vogue India. She lives between Birmingham and Bombay and tweets @SansyG.
You can contact Sana about stocking PBLJ, institutional subscriptions, marketing, events, partnerships, and more here.
Adrian B. Earle
Events Partner
Adrian is Managing Director at VerseFirst Productions, where he produces the podcasts Why Poetry? and Alone Together. He is Creative Development Lead at the poetry app Overhear where he also manages the workshop programme. He is a Hippodrome Young Poet (2019) and a BBC New Creative (2019). His poetry film boyshapedspace was commissioned by Rural Media and won joint first prize at the Newlyn PZ International Film Festival (2020); it was selected for both the Zebra Film Festival and the Film and Video Poetry Symposium that year. Adrian’s debut pamphlet, 5000HURTS, was published by Burning Eye Books in 2019 and his first full collection, We Are Always and Forever Ending, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2021.
Adrian is currently our events partner; you can contact him about his own work here.
Suna Afshan
Editor-at-Large
Suna is Co-founder and Editor at Pallina Press, and on the Editorial Board of Broken Sleep Books. She holds a BA in English and an MA in Creative Writing from Birmingham City University; in 2018, she was awarded the University's Mercian Prize for her poetry. Suna’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The London Magazine, Modern Poetry in Translation, The TLS, Stand, Magma, Wild Court, and others. Suna’s 2020 micro-pamphlet is Belladonna, a 200-line poem, published with the Broken Sleep Books imprint Legitimate Snack.
Suna is on leave from PBLJ but you can contact her about her own writing and projects here or regarding Pallina Press here.