The Fourteenth Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Wednesday, October 25th to Sunday, October 29th 2023

Online : 25 - 26 Oct
On ground : 27 - 29 Oct

Sanah Ahsan

Author, United Kingdom

Dr Sanah Ahsan is a poet, liberation psychologist, educator and presenter. She won the Outspoken Poetry Performance Prize, was shortlisted for The Queen Mary New Writing Prize and The White Review Prize 2022. Her poetry has been featured on TV and published widely. Sanah was the lyricist for a theatre adaptation of The Jungle Book. She is currently writing her debut poetry collection.

Outside of poetry, Sanah’s  published research is on the deconstruction of whiteness within UK clinical psychology. Some of her media work includes presenting a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary exploring the medicalisation of young people’s distress, and writing for The Guardian.

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Language Is A Queer Thing

  • 13th November
  • 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

A poetry recitation of brand new work
Amani Saeed, Anil Pradhan, Garfield Dsouza, Ifẹ Grillo, Megha Harish, Sanah Ahsan

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