Shazea Quraishi

Shazea is a Pakistani-Canadian poet, playwright and translator based in London, and author of two poetry collections: The Art of Scratching (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) and The Courtesans Reply (flipped eye publishing, 2012).

Since 2010, she has worked with English PEN’s outreach programme in prisons, refugee centres and schools, and was on the Readers and Writers Advisory Committee from 2012 to 2014. She also teaches with Translators in Schools and The Poetry School, and works with Living Words as a Writer in Residence in care homes with people experiencing dementia.