Samatar Elmi is a poet and a playwright of Somali heritage. He is the current poetry editor for Helicon magazine and also runs the Bristol Poetry Stanza. Poems have appeared in The Cadaverine; Decanto; Ink, Sweat and Tears; Young Inscribe Anthology; Scarf; Sable; Myths of the Near Future; Twisted Bridges: An Anthology of Bristol Art and Poetry; Helicon Magazine.