Akila Richards is a writer and spoken word artist of German and Liberian ancestry. Akila immigrated to the UK in 1984 and performed in theatre, collaboratively and solo in the UK.
Akila has been published in three anthologies with her short story ‘Eleven Years’ by Penguin in The Map Of Me in 2008, her poem ‘Red Saviour’ in RED by Peepal Tree in 2010 and in Ink On My Lips in 2013.
She works professionally in the creative and cultural sector.