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Eric Akoto
Eric Akoto, founder and editor of Litro and Crayon Magazine, is an author and curator for major festivals. Passionate about innovation and free speech, he's based in New York and London. A morning meditation enthusiast.
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Oindrila Gupta
Oindrila is the Managing editor. She has a Masters in Magazine Journalism from Cardiff University. Her works have been published in Love in Trying Times (anthology), Popshot, Alt Cardiff, Icy Tales, Go With Me, ProdNote.
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Sophie Lewis
Sophie Lewis is an editor and translator. In 2016 she co-founded Shadow Heroes, a workshops series for students on critical thinking through translation. Her co-translation of Emmanuelle Pagano’s Faces on the Tip of My Tongue was long-listed for the 2020 International Booker Prize. She has collaborated and published works with Noemi Lefebvre.
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Zadie Loft
Zadie read Classics at Downing College, Cambridge, and holds an MSt in Creative Writing at Kellogg College, Oxford. She has previously been a columnist for the Cambridge Varsity newspaper and a prose and verse contributor for La Piccioletta Barca.
She is the Editorial Strategist.
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Serene Allen
Serene Allen is our media designer. She is based in London and has a wealth of knowledge in creating bold, dynamic and memorable short form content. Her skills include video editing, VFX, colour grading and sound mixing. She has a passion for storytelling & delivering diversity in content. media@litro.co.uk
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Bobby Wilson
Bobby Wilson is a writer and editor. He has a podcast exclusively about Black literature, The Most Dangerous Thing in America. He will argue with you about basketball, film or hip-hop (or pretty much anything else) until a consensus is reached. It rarely is.
He is the nonfiction editor.
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Javeria Hasnain
Javeria Hasnain is a Pakistani poet, writer, editor, and translator from Karachi. She has received writing fellowships from Fulbright, The New School, and the International Writing Program.
She is the reviews editor.
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Monica Cardenas
Monica Cardenas is a fiction reader at Litro. She is a PhD candidate and visiting tutor at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she studies non-maternal and ambivalent mothers in literature, and teaches creative writing. Her work has been published in Catatonic Daughters and Litro. She is from Washington, D.C., but resides in London with her partner and rescue Shiba Inu, Dojo.
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Carla Scarano D’Antonio
Carla Scarano D’Antonio is a fiction reader for Litro. She obtained her Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Lancaster University and has published her creative work in various magazines and reviews. Alongside Keith Lander, Carla won the first prize of the Dryden Translation Competition 2016 for their translations of Eugenio Montale’s poems. Her short collection Negotiating Caponata was published in July 2020. She worked on a PhD on Margaret Atwood’s work at the University of Reading and graduated in April 2021.
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Catherine McNamara
Catherine McNamara is our flash fiction masterclass tutor and editor. Catherine grew up in Sydney, ran away to Paris at twenty-one to write, and ended up in West Africa running a bar. Her recent collection of short stories, Love Stories for Hectic People, was nominated for best story collection for the Saboteur Awards 2021. catherine.mcnamara@litro.co.uk