Shareefa Energy Author

Shareefa Energy was born in 1989 on the day the Berlin Wall fell. Home is London, and Leicester. Shareefa was awarded with the UK Entertainment Best Poet 2017 award and received the UK Unsigned Hype Best Spoken Word Artist 2014 award. She was artist in residence at North Kensington Library for the Apples and Snakes Spine Festival 2018 & 2019, and facilitated the Moon Festival workshops with children at Woolwich library. She released her debut spoken word neo-soul jazz EP 'Reasoning with Self' produced by Meandou in July 2015. She has worked with musicians and producers from London to Chicago. Her poetry has featured on Channel 4, ITV, The BBC One Show, the Eastern Eye newspaper, the I.D and I Am Hip-Hop magazine. She has performed at the Alchemy Festival at the Southbank Centre, Birmingham Verve Festival and Poetry Meets Hip Hop in Berlin. She is the founder of the 2014 storytelling spoken word play 'Wombs Cry' and is a member of the collective of U.K. female South Asian poets 'The Yoniverse.'