About the author

Fauzia Rafique

<p><strong>Fauzia Zohra Rafique</strong>&nbsp;is a South Asian Canadian writer of fiction and poetry, writing in English, Punjabi and Urdu. Her second novel &lsquo;The Adventures of SahebaN: Biography of a Relentless Warrior&rsquo; is being launched by Libros Libertad in November 2016. She was recognized in 2012 by peer group WIN Canada as &lsquo;Distinguished Poet &amp; Novelist&rsquo; for her first novel &lsquo;Skeena&rsquo; (Libros Libertad 2011) and the first chapbook of English and Punjabi poems &lsquo;Passion Fruit/Tahnget Phal&rsquo; (Uddari Books 2011). Her eBook of poems &lsquo;Holier Than Life&rsquo; was published in 2013. Earlier, she edited an anthology of writings of women of South Asian origin, &lsquo;Aurat durbar: The Court of Women&rsquo; (Toronto 1995). In Pakistan, Fauzia worked as a journalist and screenwriter.</p>