Zainab Imran is a poet and facilitator of British Pakistani heritage from Manchester. She writes on a multitude of racial issues, with a particular focus on the queer diaspora, the hidden stories of women in the colonial struggle and post-colonial journeys to the West. In 2022, they were awarded the Royal Society of Literature and Sky Arts Award for Poetry as an emerging writer of colour, and was part of the Words a Stage 2.0 cohort with Apples and Snakes. Zainab is now working towards their PhD in creative writing at the University of St Andrews discussing race, queerness and dichotomy in diasporic identity.
