ABOUT ME
Suna Afshan is a writer living in the West Midlands. She is the Editor and Director of Pallina Press, Co-founder and Editor-at-Large at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, 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 with the University’s Mercian Prize.
Suna’s poetry—appearing in The TLS, The London Magazine, Wild Court, Stand, and others—is concerned with the apotheosis of poetry. Her first standalone print publication and debut work was the micro-pamphlet Belladonna, published with the Broken Sleep Books imprint Legitimate Snack in the spring of 2020.
Currently, Suna is working on a number of writing projects, the primary two being: her debut poetry collection, a twenty-four-poem music ekphrastic suite in response to the Japanese pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Playing the Piano; and collaborating with Tape Letters, a project supported by the Heritage Fund, to translate the aural histories of the Pakistani diaspora into poetry. The latter of the two projects has been published as a poetry pamphlet by Modus Arts; more information can be found here.