Sabrina Mahfouz

Sabrina Mahfouz is a playwright, poet and screenwriter. Her poetry collection, How You Might Know Me, is out now with Outspoken Press and she has had eight of her plays published by Methuen Bloomsbury. She has work included in The Good Immigrant (Unbound), Here I Stand (Walker Books) and Craft of Use (Routledge). She is the editor of the Saqi Books anthology, The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, was selected for Emma Watson’s bookclub choice for January 2019.

Sabrina's poetry and writing has been performed and produced for TV, radio and film and includes Railway Nation: A Journey in Verse (BBC2); We Belong Here (BBC iPlayer); Breaking the Code (BBC3) and Sabrina Mahfouz: Arts Academy Scholar (Sky Arts). 

Sabrina edited anthologies for Saqi, entitled Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making it Happen (2019) and an anthology of children’s poetry for Hachette Kids, Poems for a Green and Blue Planet.

Her next book project is a work of narrative on fiction, These Bodies of Water, set for release in Spring 2022, with Tinder Press, and inspired by her sell-out Royal Court play A History of Water in the Middle East.

'An important, and timely, victory for British Muslim women in the war against all women being heard.' --Eimear McBride

'These are the voices we all need to hear right now. Bursting with insight, humour and searing honesty. Essential reading.' Riz Ahmed

'A lively, varied anthology…Strong, impassioned voices speak out from the pages.' --The Guardian

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