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 several anthologies, including a short story ‘Eleven Years’, in The Map Of Me (Penguin, 2008) and poetry in RED (Peepal Tree, 2010) and Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry (Peepal Tree, 2018).

She works professionally in the creative and cultural sector.