Rushda Rafeek is currently based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize UK (2017), nominated for the Pushcart Prize (USA) twice, and has won the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize (USA) in 2018.

Rushda Rafeek

Of Home, History, and Mermaids: A Conversation with Sharanya Manivannan

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

Rushda Rafeek is currently based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize UK (2017), nominated for the Pushcart Prize (USA) twice, and has won the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize (USA) in 2018.