Ellah Allfrey

Ellah Allfrey is Deputy Editor of Granta. Before joining Granta, she was Senior Editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House. She sits on the boards of the Writers’ Centre Norwich and the Caine Prize for African Writing and is Deputy Chair of the Council of the Caine Prize. In 2011 she was on the judging panel of both the David Cohen Prize and the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2012 she was chair of the fiction panel for the BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature. She has written for the Telegraph and the Observer and her introduction to Woman of the Aeroplanes by Kojo Laing (Pearson, African Writers Series) was published in 2012. A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Allfrey was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to the publishing industry.