Durre Shahwar is a writer and researcher with a PhD in autofiction and Pakistani-Welsh identity from Cardiff University. She was shortlisted and highly commended for the Morley Lit Prize. Durre is the co-editor of Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (404 INK). She was the recipient of a Future Wales Fellowship. Her work uses decolonised creative methodologies to tell marginalised narratives and has been published in Poetry Wales, Wasafiri Magazine and elsewhere.