Sabeena Akhtar, is a writer/editor and award winning arts and culture programmer working across a variety of festivals. Her work largely focuses on platforming marginalised communities with a particular focus on race and gender. She is the Head of Projects and Programmes at the WOW Foundation, working on it’s UK output and programmed the Shameless festival, a festival of activism against sexual violence. She was the Festival Coordinator of Bare Lit, the U.K’s principal festival celebrating remarkable writers in the diaspora. A co-founder of the Primadonna Festival which spotlights the work of women writers, the Primadonna Prize for writing and Bare Lit Kids, the UK’s first children’s festival showcasing the work of writers of colour. She has published a wide variety of work including editing Cut From The Same Cloth? an anthology by visibly Muslim women in Britain, Talking About Islamophobia published by Hachette and is currently working on a novel. She is a mum of four. You can find Sabeena tweeting at @pocobookreader and on instagram @beena_books