Shahilla Shariff’s first poetry collection, Life Lines (2012), was published by Proverse Hong Kong. Her work is featured in numerous anthologies and journals, including Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, World Literature Today, Literary Review of Canada, Wasafiri, Mslexia, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Born in Kenya, Shariff is Canadian and lives in Hong Kong.
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
Other Than Black
The Kenyon Review · “Other Than Black” by Shahilla Shariff This is the light: black.I can’t see God’s face but I can hearthe sea drag her despair—I live there.There is […]