Sanah Ahsan

Dr Sanah Ahsan is a poet, writer, liberation psychologist and educator. Sanah’s work plays in the wild terrain of woundedness, centering compassion and embracing each other's madness. Their work draws on therapeutics, embodiment and poetics as life-affirming practices. Some of Sanah’s media work includes writing for The Guardian, delivering a TED talk, and presenting a Channel 4 documentary on the over-medicalisation of people’s distress. Sanah is working on a non-fiction book about the politics of distress, and society’s relationship with unruly emotions.

Sanah’s debut poetry collection I cannot be good until You say it was published with Bloomsbury March 2024, shortlisted for The Forward Prize, and selected as one of The Guardian’s Best Poetry books.