Shahilla Shariff

Shahilla Shariff’s first poetry collection, Life Lines, was published in 2012 by Proverse Hong Kong. Her work has been featured in various anthologies and journals (see WLT, January 2017, 38). Born in Kenya, she is Canadian and lives in Hong Kong.

  • A black and white photograph of the front of a tenement building
    Summer 2020
    Shahilla Shariff
    Photos: Shahilla Shariff I The alleys are blind,  the streets are worn.  Everyone has left,  but tea is offered. Bone china cup,  we’re together in a room  with high ceilin...
  • The abandoned British Residency in Hyderabad, India. Photo: Kishore Nagarigari
    January 2017
    Shahilla Shariff
    The abandoned British Residency in Hyderabad, India. Photo: Kishore Nagarigari Author’s note: After my mother’s death, I struggled with the meaning of legacy. Mother Load,...

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