Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire is a Somali poet and activist. Born in Kenya in 1988, she was raised in London and lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of three poetry collections: teaching my mother how to give birth, published by Flipped Eye in 2011, Our Men Do Not Belong to Us, published by Slapering How Press and the Poetry Foundation in 2014, and Her Blue Body, published by Flipped Eye in 2015. She also released a collection of spoken poems, warsan versus melancholy (the seven stages of loneliness), on...
