Ammar Kalia

Ammar Kalia is a writer, musician and journalist living in London. Since 2019, he has been the Guardian’s global music critic and has written for publications including the Observer, BBC, Dazed, Mixmag, The Economist, Downbeat and Crack. In 2020, he published a collection of poetry and an accompanying album, Kintsugi: Jazz Poems for Musicians Alive and Dead, and in 2022, his essay on music and identity was included in the collection Haramacy. A Person Is a Prayer is Kalia’s debut novel and was shortlisted for the Unbound Firsts Prize in 2022.