Anjum Malik

Poet

Manchester City of Literature

Anjum Malik is an established scriptwriter, poet, performer, and senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University who has written several much-acclaimed original plays for BBC, ITV and theatre. Her first languages were Urdu, American English and Panjabi; born of Pakistani parents in Saudi Arabia; she was multilingual and international before she could walk.

She has translated RoundView poems into Urdu, and has worked with the team on developing our understanding of poetry as pedagogy and how multi-lingual poetry helps us to learn.