Dr Sonali Misra

Biography

Sonali teaches across the BA (Hons) Magazine Journalism and Publishing and the MA Publishing degrees at LCC, UAL, as a Lecturer. She submitted her PhD thesis 'Whose Words Are We Reading? The Cartelisation of Anglophone Trade Book Publishing and Its Postcolonial Impact: The Case of India’ at the University of Stirling in 2024. Previously, she worked in editorial and sales (product) roles at multinational publishers such as Scholastic and Hachette in India. She is the Co-founder of The Selkie Publications CIC (www.theselkie.co.uk), an international digital literary magazine that publishes and promotes minoritised voices. Sonali is the author of a nonfiction book, 21 Fantastic Failures: and what their stories teach us, and her short prose has appeared in British, Canadian and Indian anthologies and the National Library of Scotland's archives. She was among Scottish Book Trust's New Writers Awardees in 2023 for her YA fantasy novel.