Lizzy Attree

Lizzy Attree is the co-founder of the Safal Kiswahili Prize for African Literature. She has a PhD from SOAS, University of London, and 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 2018-2023 and was the Director of the Caine Prize from 2014 to 2018 (Administrator 2011-14). In 2015, she taught African literature at Kings College, London and has since taught at Goldsmiths College, CityLit, and Richmond, the American International University in London (2018-2025). She is the Producer of ‘Thinking Outside the Penalty Box’, an African Footballers project partnering with Chelsea and Arsenal, funded by Arts Council England and supported by the Poetry Society, and a freelance writer, reader (for TLC), reviewer, and critic. She currently works in fundraising for the Terrence Higgins Trust in London.