Shazea Quraishi
Shazea Quraishi is a Pakistani-born Canadian poet and translator based in London. Her poems have appeared in UK and US publications including The Guardian, The Financial Times, Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation & The Hudson Review, and anthologized in 'The Mighty Stream: Poems in celebration of Martin Luther King', and ‘The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write’, among others. Books include The Glimmer (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), The Taxidermist (Verve Poetry Press, 2020), The Art of Scratching (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) and The Courtesans Reply (flipped eye publishing, 2012).
A Complete Works alumna, Shazea teaches with the Poetry School and is an artist in residence with Living Words, an arts and literature organisation that works with marginalised people impacted by a dementia or ongoing mental health concerns.
She is a trustee on the board of English PEN, and on the committee of the Poetry and Spoken Word Group of the Society of Authors.