Co-author of The Good Immigrant (Book of the Year 2016, BBC Book of the Week, #1 Guardian Books and Amazon), I have helped develop new plays with The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and The Royal Court. My latest poetic piece, Chinese Kisses, explores the sexual and social awakening of a yellow female body travelling through people in the UK. From 2017 - 2018, I sat on the panel for the Bread and Roses Radical Book Prize, the Jhalak Prize for writers of colour, and the Tomorrow at Noon playwriting prize. I am currently developing various screen projects.
On The Good Immigrant:
If I could, I'd push a copy of this through the letter box of every front door in Britain - Independent
unflinching dialogue about race and racism in the UK - Guardian
It's precisely those of us who can afford not to mind very much, those who might at first think this book is not about us, who should read it - Spectator
it leaves you feeling armed with empathy - Vice
On Gannet:
thrilling...the narrative drive of prose and the ability of poetry to depict the experiential, to contain several moments in the same small space - Dzifa Benson, Wasafiri
Publications
Poem, Sew Irregular, a zine celebrating clothing cultures beyond fast fashion
Review, Nikesh Shukla's The One Who Wrote Destiny, Brixton Review of Books
Comment, Ed Skrein and Hollywood whitewashing, Guardian
Comment, Did you assume she was the nanny? Guardian
Comment, On political blackness, Guardian
Poetry commission, A Cat May Look At A King, Last Word Festival, The Roundhouse, London
Short story, A Message From Earth, commemorating the Golden Record, WeTransfer
Short story, Gannet, Bare Lit, Brain Mill Press
Poetry commission, Fire with Fire, animated by Paul Plowman for Hakkasan Group
Short story commission, Dumpling, or A Man, A Woman, A Vegetable or a Thing, Yauatcha Life magazine
Poems, One / Maps / Nothing is Really Difficult, Transect magazine
Essay, The Good Immigrant, essays by immigrants of colour, unbound