Suad Kamardeen
A British-Nigerian Muslim award-winning writer, editor, photographer and first class engineering graduate. She is a current Creative Writing Masters student at the University of Oxford.
She’s also a Founding Editor of WAYF Journal and Managing Editor of Rowayat. Her young adult novel, Never Enough, won the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2022, and her adult novel was shortlisted for the Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction 2021.
Suad runs Qalb Writers Collective, a community to support Black and Muslim women writers with knowledge and resources. She is committed to bearing witness to the lives, histories and cultures of Black and Muslim women. Her work explores themes of female friendships, family, belonging, shame, identity, joy and love. She aims to contribute to a world where women can become the best version of themselves so that they can live the best version of their lives.
Suad also co-hosts Ọrẹ Meji: Yoruba ni ṣoki, a podcast centred on embracing her mother tongue, Yoruba.
Suad’s a lover of books and her current favourite books are: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires (a stellar short story collection!) and Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.