TD Community Sunday: Cities Within – A Mandala Workshop with Sheniz Janmohamed

Sheniz Janmohamed is a firm believer in fostering community through collaboration and creativity. A poet, artist educator, spoken word artist and nature artist, Sheniz is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Guelph. Throughout her career, Sheniz has had the good fortune to be mentored by authors Dionne Brand and Kuldip Gill. Sheniz’s first book, Bleeding Light (Mawenzi House, 2010), is a collection of English ghazals that explores a woman’s journey through the night. Sheniz’s second collection of poetry, Firesmoke (Mawenzi House, 2014) traces the inception and annihilation of the sacred fire and explores the meaning of truth and the self, finding them both in form and emptiness. Sheniz has performed nationally and internationally for over 10 years, and her writing has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Descant and CV2. She is a regular reviewer for Quill & Quire, and the founder of Questions for Ancestors, a blog that encourages BIPOC writers and artists across Turtle Island to ask questions of their ancestors and provide advice for their descendants.