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Summer 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 3 • Forough Farrokhzad Folio |

Other Than Black

By Shahilla Shariff

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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.

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