Dr. Lizzy Attree is the co-founder of the Safal Kiswahili Prize for African Literature (link https://kiswahiliprize.org). She has a PhD from SOAS, University of London. 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 (see link here) and was the Director of the Caine Prize from 2014 to 2018. She is an Associate Editor at Wasafiri Magazine of international contemporary writing.
In 2015, she taught African literature at Kings College, London and has since taught at Goldsmiths College and now teaches World Literature at Richmond, the American University in London. In 2018 she completed an Arts Council-funded project on African footballers at Chelsea and Arsenal and published the associated anthology of poems Thinking Outside the Penalty Box with the Poetry Society. In 2024 she worked as the Editorial Assistant on 100 Days, 100 Stories: Rwandan Voices on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi (Huza Press see link https://bookbag.shop/products/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world-copy)
