Shahnaz Habib
Shahnaz Habib is an Indian poet, writer and columnist based in the United States of America. She is famous for her English poem Of Hypocrisy and Cheekbones, which won the First Prize in the Ninth National Poetry Competition in 2000 organized by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with British Council.[1]
Career in Brief
Shahnaz Habib is a writer and filmmaker who grew up in South India and is currently based in New York. Her short stories have been selected for publication in two anthologies - Twentysomething and 21 under 40.[2] Shahnaz Habib is presently a freelance writer and editor, based in Brooklyn, New York , United States. Her writing has been published in the New York Press, Women's ENews, Elan, etc. and has appeared in the anthology, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers Shahnaz was declared ‘’All India Poetry Champion’’ in 2000 for her poem Of Hypocrisy and Cheekbones. Paul Farley and Nic Humphries, the eminent British poets, formed the selection committee which chose Habib’s poem out of the 4000 entries.
See also
- “Poetry Splash” – Select Indian poems
- “Shahnaz Habib” Profile in ‘’The Guardian’’
- “Apropos of Nothing” – Shanaz in ‘’The New Yorker’’
- Indian English Literature
- Indian Writing in English
- Indian poetry
- The Poetry Society (India)