About

I have been writing in my head since childhood, having put pen to paper  in 1999 and then seriously started writing in 2006. I taught English in the further education sector for several years and it was during my first (very intense!) teaching job that I started writing a novel, quietly, in my lunch breaks -this gave me space to recuperate before I went into the classroom again.

The main themes in my work are motherhood, childhood, mortality, spirituality, religion, the rights of women, and culture. I love reading and take inspiration from an eclectic mix of English, Panjabi, Urdu and Persian writers, both classical and modern.

My poetry has been published in various anthologies and journals. Poetry Review also published my article on the physical voice and performance in Poetry News (first published by P&H Publications in the academic book Studying Creative Writing).

I contribute to academic writing, bringing to light the importance of performance for all writers as well as writing articles on topical discourse in poetry.

I have a passion for languages  and a keen interest in bilingualism, which led me to research Urdu, Panjabi and Persian poetry and run taster sessions. I’m a Visiting Tutor at local Universities where I run workshops in Urdu and Persian poetry for Creative Writing undergraduates and in the evening I run private English tutoring sessions for pupils aged 10-18 years and Linguistics undergraduates.

I enjoy learning and studying languages and believe that it widens and enriches my creative thinking. I can speak some Italian and Persian.

You can buy my first poetry collection from Amazon and Waterstones:

https://www.waterstones.com/book/from-this-street-to-the-moon/nabila-jameel/9781916248878