Dr. Lizzy Attree

About

Dr. Lizzy Attree is a co-founder of the Safal Kiswahili Prize for African Literature. She has a PhD from SOAS, University of London, (Click here). Blood on the Page, her collection of interviews with the first African writers to write about HIV and AIDS from Zimbabwe and South Africa, was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2010. She was a Director on the board of Short Story Day Africa (2018-2024)  and was the Director of the Caine Prize for African Writing from 2014 to 2018.

In 2015, she taught African literature at Kings College, London and has since taught at Goldsmiths College and now teaches Global/World Literatures at Richmond. In 2018 she completed an Arts Council-funded project on African footballers at Chelsea FC and Arsenal FC and co-published the associated anthology of poems Thinking Outside the Penalty Box with Nick Makoha & the Poetry Society.