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| Name | Shazia Hafiz Ramji |
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| Location | Calgary, Alberta |
| Biography | Shazia Hafiz Ramji grew up in Kenya, England, and the UAE, and moved with her family to Vancouver, BC, at the age of fifteen. She was a finalist for the 2021 National Magazine Awards for two poems published in Event magazine. Her writing has also been shortlisted for the 2020 Bridport Prize for International Creative Writing (UK) and nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prizes. Her first book of poems, Port of Being, received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, was named by the CBC as a best Canadian book of poetry, and was shortlisted in 2019 for several awards including the City of Vancouver Book Award and the British Columbia and Yukon Book Prizes (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize). Shazia Hafiz lives between Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto, where she is at work on a novel and a second book of poems about faith, addiction, and her South Asian, Iranian, and Irish ancestry. |
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