Nikesh Shukla (Author)
Nikesh Shukla is a British writer and diversity activist who conceived and edited The Good
Immigrant (Unbound), the acclaimed collection of essays about race and immigration by
21 writers of colour. He is the editor of Rife Magazine, an online magazine for young
people and the author of the novels Coconut Unlimited (Quartet) which was shortlisted for
the Costa First Novel Award and Meatspace (Friday Project). He has been shortlisted for
the Liberty Human Rights Arts Award and named as one of Foreign Policy's 100 Global
Thinkers 2016. His third novel The One Who Wrote Destiny (Atlantic) and his first YA
novel will be published in 2018.

Chimene Suleyman (Author)
Chimene Suleyman is a writer from London who is now based in New York. As well as
contributing to The Good Immigrant she has written on race-politics for The Independent,
International Business Times, The Debrief, The Pool, Media Diversified. TV and radio
appearances include BBC Newsnight, BBC, and LBC. Her poetry collection, Outside
Looking On, was included in a Guardian's Best Book of 2014 list.