Afshan Sajjad

Poet and educator Afshan Sajjad joined Highlight Arts in a poetry translation workshop in Lahore, Pakistan, in 2014 which brought together two poets from Glasgow with two poets from Lahore.

Afshan Sajjad

 

Afshan Sajjad is an educator and poet. She is currently the Head of the Urdu Department at Lahore American School, where she has been teaching High School students for the past eight years. She has widely published her poetry in Urdu magazines, and is the author of an Urdu poetry book by the name of ‘Jo Dil Pe Guzarti hai.’ She has also served as a judge of poetry recitation competitions, participated in various Mushaayeras and has written Urdu songs as well as scripts for some plays in school. She holds a masters degree in Urdu from Punjab University, Lahore.

You can visit Afshan Sajjad’s website here.