Esa Aldegheri
Esa Aldegheri is a multilingual poet, writer and academic, who has a PhD in Migration Studies and whose non-fiction has been published by Granta, MAP Magazine, Gutter Press, the Dangerous Women Project and others. Her poetry has been read on Radio 4 and Radio Scotland and features in several anthologies. From Scotland and Italy, Esa speaks Italian, French, Spanish and Arabic as well as English.
Esa’s Twitter: @aldeghesa
Esa Aldegheri is represented at Jenny Brown Associates by Jenny. For all enquiries contact jenny@jennybrownassociates.com
Books by Esa
There She Goes, edited by Esa Aldegheri
Saraband , March 2025
Published for International Women’s Day, this anthology of travel writing by 17 women writers highlights the joys and dangers of moving through the world as a woman, in a creative, surprising and engaging collection. Pushing boundaries in their own fields of writing, the contributors consider aspects of journeying that are overlooked in the more typical ‘conquering and adventuring’ travel tales.
Free To Go
JM Originals/John Murray, July 2022, October 2021
‘An exhilarating story of freedom and constraint, told with a confident and unwavering verve. This is a journey driven by boundless curiosity, and by the desire for connection – across borders, across languages, across time’ –Malachy Tallack
When Esa Aldegheri and her husband left their home in Orkney, Esa didn’t know that their eighteen-month motorbike adventure would take them through twenty international frontiers – between Europe and the Middle East, through Pakistan, China and India – many of which are now impassable.
Charting a story of shrinking and expanding liberties and horizons, of motherhood, womanhood, xenophobia and changing geopolitical situations, Free to Go examines the challenges of navigating a world where many assume that women ride pillion, both on a motorbike and within relationships. Part around-the-world adventure, part-literary exploration of womanhood, Free to Go is about the journeys that shape and transform us.