Leila Segal

Leila Segal was born in London, of Polish, Lithuanian and Romanian descent. Breathe: Stories from Cuba is her debut collection, and originates in the time she lived in Havana and the Pinar del Río province of Cuba. Leila’s writing has been published in magazines and journals including Litro, The London Magazine, Wasafiri Magazine, Mechanics’ Institute Review, The Lonely Crowd, Generations Literary Journal, Under the Radar, Papeles de la Mancuspia, Loose Muse Anthology, Square Peg, and Ink, Sweat & Tears. She is the founder of Voice of Freedom, a charity that works with survivors of human trafficking. Voice of Freedom enables people who have escaped their captors, and sometimes given evidence against them, to use text and photography to talk about their lives. Leila is working on a memoir, You Came Back, which charts her journey of love, grief and renewal alongside her partner who has lived with Glioblastoma since 2019.