Ghazaal Hashemi is an emerging author from Iran. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English Language Translation from Karaj Azad University, as well as two master’s degrees: an M.A. English from Savitribai Phule Pune University and an Erasmus Mundus master’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Oviedo. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Gender and Diversity at the University of Oviedo, where she researches Iranian women’s acts of resistance in art, media, and literature. Her first poetry collection explores themes such as childhood trauma, loss, grief, abuse, modern relationships, oppression, survival, vulnerability, and hope. Through her poems, she seeks to tell stories, some rooted in her own lived experiences. Other poems are shaped by imagination and inspired by the world she observes around her. However, she believes it is the storyteller’s art to weave reality and imagination so seamlessly that no one can tell them apart.
