MEET THE TEAM
Director
Aaron Kent
Aaron Kent is the director of Broken Sleep Books. As a working-class writer he particularly wants to advocate for more working-class voices in literature. He had several poetry pamphlets published, and his debut collection, Angels the Size of Houses, is out in July 2021 with Shearsman. He has had work published by Blackbox Manifold, Butchers Dog, 3:AM, BAX (2020), Wild Court, Prototype, The Scores, Perverse, & Prelude among others. He was born and raised in Cornwall, but lives in Wales.
Chief Editorial Advisor
Charlie Baylis
Charlie Baylis is from Nottingham, England. He is the Editor of Anthropocene. His poetry has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and once for the Forward Prize. His most recent publication is Swimming (the Red Ceiling Press) He spends his spare time completely adrift of reality.
Editorial Advisor
Suna Afshan
Suna Afshan is a poet and freelance editor from the Midlands. She is co-founder and Editor at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, and Director of Pallina Press. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Birmingham City University. In 2018 she was awarded with the University's Mercian Prize. Suna’s work is concerned with the apotheosis of poetry, and her 2020 micro-pamphlet Belladonna was published with Legitimate Snack.
Editorial Advisor
Jennifer Edgecombe
Jennifer Edgecombe grew up in Cornwall and now lives on the Kent coast and works in publishing. Her debut poetry pamphlet The Grief of the Sea is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in June 2020. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Ambit, Caught by the River, Lighthouse, PN Review, and Wild Court.
Editorial Advisor
Jazmine Linklater
Jazmine Linklater has published the pamphlets Toward Passion According (Zarf, 2017) and Découper, Coller (Dock Road Press, 2018). She is a co-founder of the queer feminist reading series, No Matter, in Manchester, and in 2018-19 was a Poetry London mentee with Vahni Capildeo. A third pamphlet, Figure a Motion, is forthcoming from Guillemot Press in September 2020.
Editorial Advisor
Gurdeep Mattu
Gurdeep Mattu is a publisher and the author of Sons and Fascination (Paperbooks, 2011). He is currently Publishing Director at SunRise Publishing, building lists in fiction, serious non-fiction and poetry. His poetic influences include Walt Whitman, H.D. and William Carlos Williams. Gurdeep is slowly working on his second novel and can be found blogging about books and change at changeinpublishing.com
Editorial Advisor
Jack Warren
Jack Warren is an environmentalist and poet from the South West. He has worked as a labourer and bartender for most of his career however he currently works in conservation. He holds an MA in Poetics from the University of York, an MSc in Applied Ecology from the University of Gloucestershire, and his poetry can be found in Magma, Anomaly, the Cardiff Review and others.