Salena’s stories and poetry appear in publications such as Dazed and Confused, Salzburg Review & Le Gun, and have been published in anthologies including Penguin’s IC3, Canongate’s Fire People, Serpents Tail’s Croatian Nights and Hodder & Stoughton’s Oral.
Salena regularly reads and performs on both BBC Radio 4’s Spoken Word and BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, and is renowned for ‘taking poetry into clubs’. Nicknamed Salena Saliva, she also records and performs in ska-punk-breakbeat duo SaltPeter with Peter Coyte. SaltPeter’s long awaited album Hunger’s The Best Sauce was released in October 2007. Tipped for the Mercury prize, this album was listed in The Independent On Sunday as one of the outstanding albums of 2007.
Salena can often be found in Soho’s salubrious salons. A heady cocktail of Jamaican and Irish, She lives in North London and has no pets, husbands or children.