Shahnaz Ahsan

Shahnaz Ahsan was born and raised in Keighley, West Yorkshire, and is of Bangladeshi heritage.

An award-winning writer of short stories, she holds degrees from the University of Oxford, the University of Bradford and the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Thouron Award scholar.

She has lived in London, Philadelphia and Addis Ababa, but her flattened northern vowels remain victorious.