Inspired by the Brontës

Tasha Suri is an award-winning author, a writing tutor, an occasional librarian and a cat owner. She has won the Best Newcomer (Sydney J. Bounds) Award from the British Fantasy Society, the Starburst Brave New Words Award, and has been nominated for the Astounding Award and Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Her debut novel Empire of Sand was named one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time by TIME magazine. When she isn’t writing, Tasha likes to cry over TV shows, buy too many notebooks, and indulge her geeky passion for reading about South Asian history. She lives with her family in a mildly haunted house in London.

Isabel Greenberg is a London-based illustrator and writer. She studied illustration at the University of Brighton. She won the Cape/Comica/Observer graphic short story prize in 2011 with Love in a Very Cold Climate. Her debut graphic novel, The Enyclopedia of Early Earth, won two Eisner Awards and was a New York Times bestseller.

Shereen Malherbe is a British Palestinian author. After spending over a decade living throughout the Middle East, Shereen now resides in England with her husband and four children. Shereen, an English Literature graduate, is a writer, researcher & consultant for various organisations.

Shereen’s debut novel, Jasmine Falling, has been voted among the Best Books by Muslim Women (Goodreads), and her second, The Tower has become academic set text in a US university. Her short story, The Cypress Tree, was published in World Literature Today’s landmark edition, ‘Palestine Voices’.

Her latest novel, The Land Beneath the Light; a Palestinian reimagining of Jane Eyre, has been nominated for the Palestine Book Awards 2022.

Dr Sofia Rehman is an independent scholar specialising in Islam and Gender, an author, and educator. She is the founder and co-ordinator of Leeds Lit Book Club which is now in its 8th year. During the global pandemic she launched the Islam and Gender read alongs in which she facilitates readings of academic texts penned by Muslim female scholars in conversation with a global virtual audience and has recently been featured by Vogue Arabia, Refinery29 and The Independent. She is the author of A Treasury Aisha bint Abu Bakr (Kube, 2023) and the forthcoming title Engendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers (Oxford University Press, 2023). She is a contributor to a number of anthologies including Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration edited by Lia Shimada, Cut From the Same Cloth? edited by Sabeena Akhtar and the upcoming Tilted Axis Press anthology, Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation.