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Shamshad Khan

From United Kingdom

Shamshad Khan was born and raised in the UK to parents from south Asia. She was a member of the Commonword Writing Agency from 1997 to 2001 and is the Literature Adviser to the North West Arts Board and a member of Lychee Lounge, a dynamic collective of South Asian artists. Shamshad co-edited an anthology of Black women’s poetry for Crocus in 1999, has published poems and short stories in numerous anthologies and magazines, broadcasted on BBC Radios 3 and 4, and perfomred around the country and Europe.