Residing in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Hifsa Ashraf is a pioneer in her country for writing modern Japanese-style micropoetry in English and Urdu. She is an award-winning poet, author, editor, and social activist. Her work has been widely published in international journals, newspapers, magazines, blogs and anthologies. As an editor she jointly curates the Haiku Commentary blog and is the founding editor of the bilingual micropoetry magazine Saawan Rut. Hifsa is the author of five micropoetry books on gender-based taboos, mental health, and socio-political issues. She has won The Touchstone Award for Individual Poems 2021 from The Haiku Foundation. She received special mention for her poetry collection, Her Fading Henna Tattoo, in the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award 2020 and in the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award 2021. Her most recent micropoetry collections are her deep-rooted scars and wildflowers by Alba Publishing UK. Please visit her blog to view her published work.

http://www.hifsays.blogspot.com

or follow her on twitter at

@hifsays.