We’re a semi-annual literary magazine published in both print and as a digital download carrying fiction and non-fiction relating to science, scientists, and the interaction between science and society.
Production Team
Hilary Lamb, our non-fiction editor, is a journalist and author. After five years as a staff reporter covering science and technology, she left to become a freelancer. She has worked on more than a dozen non-fiction books and won multiple awards for her journalism, including being named Columnist of the Year 2019 by the British Society of Magazine Editors.
Anita Chandran, our fiction editor, is a writer and editor. She is an editor at Nature Communications, has a PhD in ultrafast fibre lasers, and was awarded Imperial College’s Sir Arthur Acland Prize for excellence in the humanities. She has also worked in historical fiction, science pedagogy, and AI ethics and was overall winner of the Royal College of Science’s 2019 writing challenge for her short story (Nothing but) Art.
Jack Cooper, our poetry editor, is a poet and science communicator based in London with a background in biological research. His poetry has been discussed on BBC Radio 4, translated in Romanian and Czech, commissioned by the Science Museum, and taught in British schools. His debut pamphlet, Break the Nose of Every Beautiful Thing (Doomsday Press), received the Society of Authors’ Eric Gregory Award.
Gautam Kambhampati, our publisher, is a trainee patent lawyer. He has a PhD in quantum optics and molecular physics, and has previously worked as a data scientist. He has sat on committees advising a range of organisations from medical bodies to think tanks, and is a keen sailor in his spare time.
Contributors
We are very lucky to have been able to work with a number of talented designers in producing TAMARIND, including: Cerys Llinos (issues 1-4), Sabrina Kressierer (issue 5), Lydia Blagden (issues 6-7), and Matt Clough (issue 8 onwards).
We’re also extremely pleased to have been able to feature illustrations and photography by Angel Li, Joanna Clay Design, Ryan de Carte, Benji Spence, Sophie Vickers, Ling-Hsuan Wang, Jane Meng, Lef Apostolakis, and James Alfred Hart.
Aidan Patrick, our associate editor for issues 6 and 7, is a mathematics and computer science graduate working as an AI software engineer. He also holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Birkbeck.