Ana-Diamond Aaba Atach

Anahita Diamond (Ana-Diamond Aaba Atach) is the current Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a mentor with the Global Majority and Underrepresented Writers’ Programme. She was previously a Clarendon Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford.

Her writing spans academic essays and news op-eds, and she has extensive experience in writing programmes both as a participant and as a judge. She has partaken in programmes such as the prestigious Penguin Random House/Merky Books New Writers’ Competition, the London Library Emerging Writers Programme, and the Spread the Word Early Career Bursary. She has also taken part in international workshops, including Berlin Writers' Workshop, Stanford’s Creative Writing Programme, and the Arvon Foundation, where she honed her craft in memoir and life-writing.

In March 2025, her debut book, Breaking Silence, was acquired jointly by Canongate (UK) and Simon & Schuster (US/Canada), with rights sold in twelve countries; it will be published in spring 2027. This non-fiction feminist book braids her own family memoir with Iran’s turbulent history, tracing two centuries of defiance and transformation through the voices and lived experiences of its women.

Anahita is represented by Sabhbh Curran at Curtis Brown (UK), and she can be found across social media at @anadiamondx