An Evening with Nikita Gill and Phoenicia Rogerson in Cambridge

This October, prepare yourself to move beyond this mortal coil. Authors Nikita Gill and Phoenicia Rogerson will be leading us through the Underworld and Mount Olympus as they discuss their new novels Hekate and Aphrodite. In Hekate, Nikita Gill delivers a fiery, propulsive, and absorbing retelling of the Greek myth of an orphan girl who grows up in the underworld and goes on to become the goddess of witchcraft, necromancy and darkness. In Aphrodite, Phoenicia Rogerson takes a feisty spin on Greek myth, as the beautiful Aphrodite tricks the gods into believing she is one of them before hatching a plan to bring down Zeus himself.

Nikita Gill is a British-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator living in the south of England. She has published five collections of poetry: Your Soul Is A River, Your Heart is the Sea, Wild Embers FierceFairytales and Great Goddesses. She is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! and a novel in verse called The Girl and Goddess was published on National Poetry Day 2020.

Phoenicia Rogerson is a British author. Her debut novel Herc won the Somerset Maugham Award 2024. Originally from Cornwall, she now finds herself in London, where she’s aiming for the highest possible bookshelf-to-floor space ratio.