![]() Her full collection was released in 2016, also through flipped eye. In 2011, she released Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth, a poetry pamphlet published by flipped eye. As of 2015, she primarily resides in Los Angeles, California. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing. ![]() Life and career īorn on 1 August 1988 in Kenya to Somali parents, Shire migrated with her family to the United Kingdom at the age of one. ![]() Her words "No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a shark", from the poem "Conversations about Home (at a deportation centre)", have been called "a rallying call for refugees and their advocates". In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize, chosen from a shortlist of six candidates out of a total 655 entries. Warsan Shire FRSL (born 1 August 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher, who was born to Somali parents in Kenya. ![]() Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth (2011) Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems (2022)īrunel University African Poetry Prize Young Poet Laureate for London ![]()
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