Sheniz Janmohamed

Sheniz Janmohamed is an author, poet, freelance writer and spoken word artist. A graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Guelph, Sheniz has been mentored by some of Canada's most celebrated authors and poets.

Sheniz's first book, Bleeding Light, was published in September 2010 by TSAR Publications.  Bleeding Light is a collection of poems in ghazal form that traces the steps of a woman’s journey through night. She knows that in order to witness dawn, she has to travel through dusk first. Throughout her journey, she is caught between West and East, religion and heresy, love and anti-love, darkness and the knowledge of light. Each couplet is an independent thought and reflection, a pearl strung into a necklace. Bleeding Light is fraught with opposing, stark and often violent imagery heavily influenced by Sufi philosophy.