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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 most recently Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), and Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, U.S. 2023). 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). Shazea teaches with the Poetry School and runs Poetry Studio, a programme of writing workshops. She is a trustee of English PEN and an ongoing artist in residence with Living Words.