Hafsah Aneela Bashir Author

Hafsah Aneela Bashir is a writer and performance poet with an MA in Postcolonial Literary and Culture from the University of Leeds. Her work has been published by Crocus Books in the anthologies, When Saira Met Sarah, Elevator Fiction and 80 Decibels Above Sound. Co-director of the arts collective, Outside The Frame Arts, she is passionate about platforming voices outside of mainstream arts. She works with marginalized and underrepresented communities delivering creative writing workshops centred around identity and empowerment. Also a TOAST2016 poet and one of six recipients of Manchester International Festival's Jerwood Fellowships 2017, she recently wrote and performed a monologue based on her grandmother's experience of the India/Pakistan 1947 partition with The Royal Exchange Theatre. She is currently on an Artistic Director's Leaders of Tomorrow programme, has performed for numerous festivals, is creating theatre work of her own exploring womanhood and faith.