Sanah Ahsan

Dr Sanah Ahsan is a poet, writer, liberation psychologist and educator. Sanah’s work plays in the wild terrain of woundedness, the sacred landscapes of falling apart, centering compassion and embracing each other’s madness. Their work draws on therapeutics, embodiment and poetics as life-affirming practices. Some of Sanah’s media work includes writing for The Guardian, delivering a TED talk, and presenting a Channel 4 documentary on the over-medicalisation of people’s distress. Sanah is working on a non-fiction book about the politics of distress, and society’s relationship with unruly emotions.

Sanah’s poetry has been published widely, including The Poetry Review, Rialto, The London Magazine, bath magg and more. They were awarded the Outspoken Prize and have been shortlisted for The Queen Mary New Writing Prize, White Review Prize, Bridport Prize and Frontier Poetry Prize. Sanah’s debut poetry collection I cannot be good until You say it was published with Bloomsbury March 2024, shortlisted for The Forward Prize, and selected as one of The Guardian’s Best Poetry books.