FRSL (born 16 September 1966),[1] is the Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books,[2] a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University, and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.

In 2016, she was a Visiting Professor & Global Intercultural Scholar at Goshen College, Indiana, and was the Guest Master for the 2016 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation international journalism fellowship in Cartagena, Colombia.

In 2011, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the publishing industry and in 2019, she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

[citation needed] She now resides in London, UK, working as Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing.

[10][11] A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts,[12] Allfrey was awarded an OBE in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the publishing industry.