Image © Anila Arshad-Mehmood
Location: South-east England
Anila Arshad-Mehmood
Anila (she/her) is a Pakistani writer who has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Brighton. Her debut pamphlet collection, Everything I learnt from your hands was published in January 2026.
Her work has featured online at IAMB poetry and REWRITE Reads and she has been a featured poet with Flight of the Dragonfly. Anila writes about identity, diaspora, family, mental health and nostalgia. Anila is based in southeast England but loves to travel and will happily visit anywhere new. Her favourite interests are cultural insights, theatre, new books (with the smell of old books), great coffee, cats, and trying something that scares her, like skydiving. She dislikes punctuation.
