Editors
Suna Afshan
Director & Editor
Suna is a writer, editor, and translator. Her writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Dark Horse, Stand, Magma, and others. Suna’s 2020 micro-pamphlet was Belladonna, a long poem published with the Broken Sleep Books imprint Legitimate Snack. Her most recent publication is Tape Letters: a Translation into Poetry, a work commissioned and published by Modus Arts. You can find out more here. She holds a BA in English and an MA in Creative Writing from Birmingham City University.
Currently, Suna is working on a number of writing projects, the primary being her debut full-length poetry collection: a music-ekphrastic suite in response to the Japanese pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Playing the Piano”.
She is Co-founder and Editor-at-Large at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, a magazine of contemporary poetry first published by Pallina Press.
You can contact Suna about her own writing and projects here or anything regarding the Press here.
Naush Sabah
Editor-at-large
Naush is a writer, editor, and educator from the West Midlands. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birmingham City University. Her short play, Coins, was staged at The Rep and longlisted for the Pint Sized Plays competition (2019). Heredity/ASTYNOME, a double micro-pamphlet box set, was published by Legitimate Snack last year. Her work has appeared in the TLS, Modern Poetry in Translation, Magma, The Dark Horse, and elsewhere. She is the Editor and Publishing Director of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and Co-founder and Editor-at-Large at Pallina Press.
Naush can be contacted in matters related to PBLJ here.