Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is an educator, writer and poet from West Yorkshire whose work disrupts and interrupts questions of history, race, knowledge and power.

Suhaiymah was the runner-up of the Roundhouse National slam 2017 with her viral poem, This is Not a Humanising Poem, which was also short-listed for the 2018 Outspoken Prize for Poetry.

In 2018-19 she was a Nicola Thorold Fellow at the Roundhouse and is currently an Associate Artist at Freedom Studios. She is the author of a poetry collection, Postcolonial Banter (Verve Poetry Press, 2019), co-author of the anthology, A FLY GIRL’S GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY: Being a woman of colour at Cambridge and other institutions of power and elitism (Verve Poetry Press, 2019) and hosts the Breaking Binaries podcast.