Farhana Shaikh is a writer and publisher born in Leicester. She established Dahlia Books, a small press from the corner of her kitchen. In 2017 she won the Penguin/Travelex Next Great Travel Writer prize and was longlisted for the Spread the Word Life Writing Prize. Her short play Risk was produced as part of Kali Theatre’s discovery programme. She teaches at De Montfort University and manages the Middle Way Mentoring project.