Meet The Team Leads

Dawn Web (they/them) is a queer, Canadian, mixed-race emerging inter-artist with a background in healthcare. Web is an award-winning performer and the published author of “Red Corner: a poetry collection,” which has been translated into Spanish and French, has been adapted to the stage, and has been adapted to a music album (out on all platforms). Dawn is a BSc alumna and is completing a BAMCN-INDI, Inter-Arts Entrepreneurship & Creative Writing, Minor in Neuroscience at Dalhousie University and Athabasca University alongside their MA in Creative Writing at the University of Westminster. Web is also the Creative Director for Vivid Illusion Creative Studios. Dawn's artistic focus blends genres, pulling from poetry, prose, music, dance movement, collage and painting. You can check-out their work: www.vividillusion.studio/dawnweb or www.linktr.ee/dawnweb

Sankshiptha Susan Mathangi (She/her) was born in India, and moved to London to pursue her passion for Creative Writing. As an MA Creative Writing student at the university, every poem she crafts, every story she imagines is a step towards discovering her voice. She loves reading fantasy, crime mystery, all forms of poetry, and enjoys painting. She is currently working on her debut poetry book, and dystopian fantasy novel.

Isabel Kilevold (She/her) grew up on the quiet edges of Oslo. She now lives in London, where she writes prose, poetry, and diary entries, as well as music journalism for publications including The Line of Best Fit and Hard of Hearing Magazine. She is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Westminster. Her creative work drifts through existentialism, grief, and the body, her words guided by a Gemini moon, a heart tuned to music, and a deep sensitivity.

Lucía Verónica (She/her) was born and raised in Lima, Peru. She has built a career as a translator and interpreter. Now she is turning toward her lifelong ambition: pursuing her dream of becoming a writer. Curious by nature and led by instinct, her interests shift restlessly across genres and ideas; her next obsession is always just around the corner.

Zareena Hamill (She/her) is a mixed-race East Londoner pursuing her final term for the Professional Writing MA at the University of Westminster. She specializes in environmental Romanticism and poetry-making, with her first pamphlet leading her postgraduate project. An English Literature BA graduate from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Zareena is searching for new writing experiences around the London Area with an ambition to understand museum and art gallery curation in order to represent poetry off the page.

Nina Engineer (She/her) merged her love for art and storytelling to study MA Creative Writing. She enjoys writing auto-fiction and poetry.

Alexandra Beata Mari (She/her) was born in Hungary and nurtured in London. Her background in art and architecture has given her skills she takes advantage of in her creative writing.  She has worked in poetry collaborations before and is currently writing her first fantasy novel, while completing her MA in Professional writing. 

Chardonnay Vasiana (She/her) is a south London playwright and actor with an education in drama, performing arts and creative writing. Vasiana is a passionate and keen creative with an interest in law and psychology, and draws from her Jamaican heritage in her writing. She also plays the viola, does ballet, and enjoys swimming, yoga, cycling, and pilates. 

Kiera Cz (She/her) grew up here and there, and is now obtaining her MA in Professional Writing at the University of Westminster. After studying Rhetoric and Creative Writing in Canada, she moved to London to pursue a career in the writing world. Her poems and prose focus on heartbreak, love, and the romanticism of domestic, everyday life.