Shehzil Malik Illustrator & Author

Shehzil Malik (Shehzil.com) is a visual artist who focuses on feminist topics and women’s narratives. The Biker Girls is her picture book debut as an author and illustrator, and she also illustrated the picture book A Girl Called Genghis Khan: How Maria Toorpakai Wazir Pretended to Be a Boy, Defied the Taliban, and Became a World Famous Squash Player (by Michelle Lord), as well as the cover for Aisha Saeed’s Amal Unbound and Omar Rising. She often works to examine socio-political questions around gender-based violence, injustice, and freedom using digital art, publications, textiles, and public art. She is a Fellow at the Universität der Künste Berlin, as well as a Fulbright scholar. Her commercial practice includes clients like Oxfam, Malala Fund, Marvel, New York Times, GIZ and Google. She lives in Berlin, Germany.