In 2014, she was named the first Young Poet Laureate for London and chosen as poet-in-residence for Queensland, Australia. In 2013, she won Brunel University’s first African Poetry Prize. She has performed her work internationally at events in South Africa, Italy, Germany, and the United States. Shire is the poetry editor of Spook Magazine and has guest edited Young Sable LitMag. Shire’s poetry was adapted for singer Beyoncé’s album Lemonade in 2016. She is the author of the collections Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (flipped eye, 2011), Her Blue Body (flipped eye, 2015), and Our Men Do Not Belong to Us (Slapering Hol Press and Poetry Foundation, 2015). Her work has appeared in a range of journals and anthologies, including Poetry Review, Wasafiri, Sable LitMag the Salt Book of Younger Poets (2011), Long Journeys: African Migrants on the Road (2013), and Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (2016). Warsan Shire was born in Kenya in 1988 and is a London-based Somali-British writer.
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