Shazia Hafiz Ramji is an award-winning writer living and working in Canada and the UK. She grew up in Kenya, England, the UAE, and in Coquitlam, New Westminster, and East Vancouver, British Columbia.

Port of Being is her first book of poems.

Shazia is a SSHRC (CGS-D) Doctoral Fellow and Killam Laureate studying English at the University of Calgary. Her research engages with aurality, intergenerational trauma, the Second World War, and intimacies and afterlives of empire through the lens of the long-eighteenth century. Shazia received an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a BA from Simon Fraser University, where she studied English and History.

Shazia’s academic work is forthcoming in the University of Toronto Quarterly and The Literary Review of Canada. She has presented at the Modern Languages Association (MLA), the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), SpokenWeb, and the Canadian Writers Summit, among others. She has also pitched, moderated and presented on panels thrice at the highly competitive Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). In 2019, she gave a keynote at the Post/Colonial Ports Conference in association with Writers Read, alongside David Chariandy. Shazia is a founding member and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Collective for ACCUTE, where she serves as a board member.

Her creative work has taken her across Canada and to Portland, Dublin, London, and Singapore, where she was a featured author at the 2019 Singapore Writers Festival, as part of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Canadian writers showcase.

She continues to write and teach across Canada and the UK.

Email shaziahafiz.ramji@ucalgary.ca, shaziahafizramji@gmail.com, or message Shazia on Insta or Twitter.

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