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Saradha Soobrayen
Saradha is a creative activist working across art forms. She studied live art, visual art and creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and received a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award for Poetry in 2004. Born in London, she represented Mauritius at the Southbank Centre’s Parnassus Poetry festival and won the 2015 Pacuare Reserve’s Poet Laureate Costa Rica residency. Saradha was named in the Guardian as one of the ‘Twelve to watch’, up and coming new generation of poets. She is a passionate advocate for human rights and the preservation of libraries and indigenous heritage. In 2017 in collaboration with Edinburgh University she was the poet in ‘non’ residence on CHAGOS: Cultural Heritage Across Generations and is developing ‘Sounds Like Root Shock’ , a multidisciplinary poetic inquiry into the depopulation of the Chagos Archipelago. In 2018 she was the stowaway poet for the National Maritime Museum. Her critical texts, experimental short fiction and poems are widely published in journals and anthologies. In 2019 Saradha’s artworks and poetic inquiry scrolls will tour in exhibitions in the United Kingdom and Mauritius as part of her Guernica Remakings artist residency.