Hannah Chukwu – Assistant Editor at Hamish Hamilton

Hannah Chukwu is an award-winning Assistant Editor at Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK, where she works on literary fiction and non-fiction, working with authors such as Bernardine Evaristo, Zadie Smith and Arundhati Roy. She is an editor for Five Dials magazine, and the series editor for Black Britain: Writing Back, and is looking to commission thought-provoking, surprising literary fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on underrepresented voices and stories. She is also Policy and Campaigns Consultant for the campaign ‘Lit in Colour’; run by PRH and the Runnymede Trust, the campaign aims to diversify the English GCSE curriculum. She co-founded the theatre production company Chucked Up Theatre in 2016, and is a Trustee at education equality charity The Brilliant Club. She now lives in London.