Don''t Wake Me: The Ballad Of Nihal Armstrong

About Rahila Gupta

Rahila Gupta is a freelance journalist and writer. She has contributed short stories and poems to many anthologies and journals. She co-edited with Rukhsana Ahmad a collection of short stories by Asian women Flaming Spirit (Virago 1994). With Kiranjit Ahluwalia she wrote Circle of Light (HarperCollins 1997) the story of a battered woman who killed her violent husband and co-scripted the feature film Provoked which was based on the book and released in 2007. As a journalist she writes for the Guardian and openDemocracy among other papers and websites. She was a member of the writing team on Westway an award-winning drama series set in a fictional medical centre in multicultural London for the BBC World Service. In 2003 she edited a collection of political essays on the issues faced by black women in Britain From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall black sisters (Zed Press). She was writer-in-residence at Bromley-by-Bow Centre from 2000 until 2005 and has run writing workshops in a range of community and educational settings. Her book on the link between immigration controls and slavery Enslaved: the new British slavery was published in 2007 and was reissued by Portobello Books in May 2008.