Tayiba Zeenat
Tayiba is a writer of all kinds of things. She is based in Manchester, and is in her final year of studying English and German at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Before the world went under, she wrote scripts produced by Manchester theatre companies like Take Back, Hung Theatre and Girl Gang Manchester.
She also translates – in 2020 she won the Warwick Undergraduate Translation prize, and received accolades in both the Austrian Cultural Forum’s Translation prize (German) and the OxOn Poetry Translation Competition (French).
When she can muster up the brain cells for it, she writes poetry – her sonnet Reading recently won the 2021 Eugene Lee-Hamilton Prize. She recently took part in the Young and Open Poems programme run by the Haus für Poesie in Berlin, and worked backstage at the 23rd Poesiefestival. She enjoys people’s wild attempts to spell her name, hiding puns in her essays and powerful earrings.
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