Shazia Hafiz Ramji’s first book, Port of Being, received the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry, judged by Wayde Compton, and is forthcoming in October 2018 with Invisible Publishing. Her poetry is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and her fiction and criticism have appeared in The Humber Literary Review and Quill & Quire, respectively. In April 2018, she founded Intersections, a series dedicated to featuring BIPOC and women to discuss the craft of writing and the writing life from an intersectional lens.