Shasta Hanif Ali

Shasta Hanif Ali is a writer and poet. Her writing delicately navigates the legacy of race and heritage; where themes of memory and language interlace and disrupt. Shasta’s writing has been published in the Association for Scottish Literature, Federation of Writers Scotland, Sidhe Press among others. Shasta is a winner of the 2024 Candlestick Press Light Poems competition. Recently Shasta was nominated as one of Edinburgh’s 100 trail blazing women past and present, and honoured in a mural which exhibited across Edinburgh.