Magma Board

Fahad Al-Amoudi is a poet and editor of Ethiopian and Yemeni heritage based in London. His work is published in Poetry London, Butcher’s Dog and the White Review. He is an Obsidian alumnus, Writing Squad graduate and member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen.

David Floyd lives in London and is Managing Director of Social Spider CIC. His pamphlets are Protest (Hearing Eye, 2011) and War in the Playground (Hearing Eye, 2003).

Ella Frears is a poet and artist originally from Cornwall, now based in London. Her debut collection Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books, 2020) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

Susannah Hart is a London-based poet who also works as a business writer. Her debut collection Out of True won the Live Canon First Collection Prize in 2018. She won first prize in the 2020 National Poetry Competition and was commended in the 2021 competition. Susannah has been a trustee of Magma since 2015.

Lisa Kelly is half Danish and has single-sided deafness from childhood mumps. Her pamphlets are From the IKEA Back Catalogue (New Walk Editions, 2021), Philip Levine’s Good Ear (Stonewood Press, 2018) and Bloodhound (Hearing Eye, 2012). Her poems appear in Carcanet’s New Poetries VII and her debut collection, A Map Towards Fluency, was published by Carcanet in 2019. She is learning British Sign Language.

Fiona Moore’s first collection The Distal Point (HappenStance) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the 2019 T S Eliot and Seamus Heaney Prizes. She edited Magma 72, the Climate Change Issue.

Cheryl Moskowitz is a US born UK based poet, translator and novelist. Trained in dramatherapy and psychodynamic counselling she runs writing projects in various health-care, educational and community settings. Her most recent publication is the pamphlet Maternal Impression published by Against the Grain Poetry Press 2021.

Helen, a founder member of the Magma team, now lives in Fife. She recently completed an MFA in Creative Writing at St Andrews and is enjoying exploring the vibrant Scottish poetry scene. Helen takes the lead for Magma on privacy and data protection.

Laurie Smith helped start Magma in 1994, has edited 9 issues, been Chair and is now Company Secretary.  He co-leads the Let's Think in English programme at King's College London and teaches literature at the City Lit.