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- Shamshad Khan és una poetessa britànica. Va estudiar biologia i comportament animal i va obtenir el títol de professora de ciències per a l'escola secundària. Des de 1998 és assessora literària de . Ha estat coeditora de les antologies Black Women's Poetry (1999) i Peace Poems (2003). Va ser membre del projecte de la Commonwealth «Mushiara Shake-up», en el qual participen poetesses i artistes d'Anglaterra, Índia i Pakistan; i és membre de Lychee Lounge, un col·lectiu d'artistes del sud asiàtic. Ha fet programes radiofònics com Love Thang (Radio 4, 1996,1997) i Woman's Hour (Radio 4, 1998), entre altres. Ha dirigit tallers d'escriptura creativa per a dones asiàtiques i grups de joves en diverses escoles i també per a l'organització Refugee Support Network. L'any 1994 publica The Woman and the Chair. Les seves poesies han aparegut en nombroses antologies com Flame, Poetry of Rebellion (1997), The Firepeople (1998), Bittersweet (1998), Healing Strategies for Women at War (1999), Gargoyle (1999), Poems for your Pocket (1999), Anthology of British South Asian poets (2000), Kala Kahania (2002), Crimson Feet (2003) i Velocity (2003). Ha fet diversos espectacles amb els seus poemes, lectures o muntatges escènics, en els quals conjuga bandes sonores, ballarins contemporanis i músics. Per exemple, Apples & Snakes (Battersea Arts Centre, 1997-2001), The Drum (Birmingham 2003), Asia on the Road (Dinamarca, 2003), Bones (Berna, Suïssa, 2003), Hard Cut a poetic monologue (dirigit per Mark Whitelaw; música de Basil Clarke; Glasgow, 2002). Hard Cut beautiful and unsettling (Suïssa, 2003) i Megalomaniac. (ca)
- Shamshad Khan (born 1964, Leeds) is a widely anthologised Manchester-based poet. Khan's poems have been published in anthologies including Flame, Poetry of Rebellion, The Fire People (1998), Bittersweet (1999), Healing Strategies for Women at War, Gargoyle, Longman’s GCSE Poems for your Pocket, Velocity and Redbeck Press’ anthology of British South Asian poets. Her 1994 short story, ‘The Woman and the Chair’ received critical acclaim. She has performed her work widely, and been broadcast on local and national radio in the UK including the BBC's Radio 4’s Love Thang and Woman’s Hour. Khan has also worked as an editor on an anthology of black women’s poetry and advised the Arts Council of England North West on literature. She also presented a Radio 4 programme on the Qaṣīda al-Burda (also known as The Poem of the Cloak). (en)
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- Shamshad Khan és una poetessa britànica. Va estudiar biologia i comportament animal i va obtenir el títol de professora de ciències per a l'escola secundària. Des de 1998 és assessora literària de . Ha estat coeditora de les antologies Black Women's Poetry (1999) i Peace Poems (2003). Va ser membre del projecte de la Commonwealth «Mushiara Shake-up», en el qual participen poetesses i artistes d'Anglaterra, Índia i Pakistan; i és membre de Lychee Lounge, un col·lectiu d'artistes del sud asiàtic. (ca)
- Shamshad Khan (born 1964, Leeds) is a widely anthologised Manchester-based poet. Khan's poems have been published in anthologies including Flame, Poetry of Rebellion, The Fire People (1998), Bittersweet (1999), Healing Strategies for Women at War, Gargoyle, Longman’s GCSE Poems for your Pocket, Velocity and Redbeck Press’ anthology of British South Asian poets. Her 1994 short story, ‘The Woman and the Chair’ received critical acclaim. She has performed her work widely, and been broadcast on local and national radio in the UK including the BBC's Radio 4’s Love Thang and Woman’s Hour. Khan has also worked as an editor on an anthology of black women’s poetry and advised the Arts Council of England North West on literature. (en)
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