The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human

Saeida Rouass is a British author of Moroccan heritage. Her novels include Eighteen Days of Spring in Winter and Assembly of the Dead. She has contributed to anthologies including Our Morocco, The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human, and We Wrote in Symbols and written for Newsweek and The Independent. She is currently working on a dark comedy feature script with documentary film maker Masood Khan about polygamy in Muslim communities.

Indlieb Farazi Saber is a story-teller who wants to amplify the voices that don’t always make the headlines. Born in London, then raised and educated in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Libya, the Netherlands and finally back in the UK where she studied for an MA in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her global upbringing led her to work as a writer, editor and producer for several news organisations including Al Jazeera English, BBC World Service and Middle East Eye. She’s also one half of the rap sensation “Kiddo and the Widow”.

Based in Sri Lanka, Marguerite Richards is an American writer and memoir editor, working with people all over the world to tell their life stories. She holds degrees in literature and translation, has taught in France and Chile, and fell in love with magazine publishing in New York. She has worked on articles and essays published in many places, but she has found her calling with books. The second edition of her debut short memoir collection, The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human is set to launch worldwide at Bradford Literature Festival, June 2024.

Kamin Mohammadi is an author, award-winning journalist, broadcaster, human rights activist, writing and yoga teacher and passionate public speaker. She talks on topics as diverse as Iranian women’s rights, and the importance of living well and in harmony with the earth and ourselves. Born in Iran, she and her family moved to the UK during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. As a journalist she has written for the British and international press including The Times, the Financial Times, Washington Post, The Sunday Times (UK) The Guardian, The Observer, and many others. Most recently her journalism on Iran has won two prizes from the LA Press Club, and previously has been nominated for an Amnesty Human Rights in Journalism award in the UK, and for a National Magazine Award by the American Society of Magazine Editors in the U.S.