Rukhsana Ahmad Author

Award-winning writer Rukhsana Ahmad has written and adapted many plays for stage and BBC Radio. River on Fire was a finalist in the Susan Smith Blackburn Awards, Wide Sargasso Sea was a finalist for the Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio Adaptation and Song for a Sanctuary was a finalist for the CRE award for best original radio drama. Other plays include Mistaken: Annie Besant in India and Letting Go. She has also written fiction: The Hope Chest and The Gatekeeper's Wife and other stories. She has also translated We Sinful Women, a collection of contemporary Urdu feminist poetry and The One Who Did Not Ask by Altaf Fatima. REVIEWS OF PREVIOUS WORK "... the debates about belief and faith are clear and compelling and the play also bravely grapples with big spiritual ideas..." - Aleks Sierz, theatre critic "... sensitive approach gives painful credibility to the dilemmas facing women with nowhere else to go." - The Independent