CONTACT

For freelance editing, writing, commercial and speaking engagements please email

charliebrinkhurstcuff@gmail.com

For literary inquiries please email Emma Paterson

emma@aitkenalexander.co.uk

For screenwriting and podcasting inquiries please email Ikenna Obiekwe

ikenna@independenttalent.com

For inquiries relating to Mother Country please email Alara Delfosse

alara.delfosse@headline.co.uk

For inquiries relating to Black Joy please email Ros Hutchison

rhutchison@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk

SHORT BIO

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is an award-winning editor, writer and podcaster, she specialises in cross-disciplinary project-based work, spanning journalism, literature, audio and screen.

Previously, Charlie was Editor-in-Chief of the groundbreaking gal-dem magazine and later a Senior Staff Editor at The New York Times. In 2024 she completed a fellowship at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, where she investigated underreported missing person’s cases.

She is the editor of the books Black Joy (Penguin, 2021) and I Will Not Be Erased (Walker, 2019), and the editor and lead author of Mother Country (Hachette, 2018). Her first narrative podcast, The Missing Sister, was released in 2025.