Portrait of poet Bänoo Zan, a white woman with curly shoulder-length dark hair and brown eyes. She is wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and a red scarf with a black printed design and glasses with black frames. She is throwing a crumpled up piece of paper at the camera.

Bänoo Zan is a poet, translator, and poetry curator, with over 250 published pieces and three books including Songs of Exile and Letters to My Father. She is the founder of Shab-e She’r, Canada’s most diverse and brave poetry series. Bänoo is the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, Canada.

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