Paisley

About Rakhshan Rizwan

Rakhshan Rizwan works as an Acquisitions Editor. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Utrecht University. Her poetry pamphlet Paisley (The Emma Press 2017) was shortlisted for the Saboteur Award and the Michael Marks Poetry Prize. Her collection of childrens poetry My Sneezes are Perfect (The Emma Press 2021) documents the difficulties of moving countries and living through a pandemic from the perspective of a young child. Her book Kashmiri Life Narratives: Human Rights Pleasure and the Local Cosmopolitan (Routledge 2020) looks at how Kashmiri authors use innovative languages of happiness to do human rights advocacy. Her writing has appeared in Aaduna Nimrod Postcolonial Text and Blue Lyra Review among others. She is on the editorial team of the childrens poetry journal Tyger Tyger Magazine. She is from Lahore Pakistan has lived in Germany and the Netherlands and currently lives in the Bay Area of North California US. Rachel Piercey is a poet and editor who also writes for children. Her poems have appeared in magazines including Magma The Rialto Poems In Which Butchers Dog and The Poetry Review and she has two pamphlets with the Emma Press The Flower and the Plough and Rivers Wanted. https://www.rachelpierceypoet.com/