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Shazia Hafiz Ramji

May 29, 2015

Shazia Hafiz Ramji is the author of Port of Being. She received a 2023 Critic’s Desk Award from ARC Poetry magazine and was a finalist for the 2023 Alberta Magazine Awards. Shazia is a Killam Laureate and SSHRC (CGS-D) Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of Calgary. She lives in western Canada and London, UK, where she is at work on a novel.


Works by Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Book ReviewsOpinionsPoetryBook Reviews of Author

Book Reviews by Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Mimetic Histories
By Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Published in Reading, Writing, Listening Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 241 (2020): 127-128.
  • Dear Evelyn by Kathy Page
  • The Boat People by Sharon Bala
Visitations and Visitors
By Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Published in Lost and Found Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 236 (2018): 166-167.
  • Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
  • Shot-Blue by Jesse Ruddock
Fictions of Absence
By Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Published in Radio, Film, and Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 225 (Summer 2015): 142-143.
  • Entropic by R. W. Gray (Author)
  • Every Minute is Suicide: Stories by Bruce McDougall (Author)
Agency & Self-reflexivity
By Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Published in Science & Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 221 (Summer 2014): 165-66.
  • Testament by Dennis Lee
  • The April Poems by Leon Rooke
  • Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now by Daphne Marlatt
Contemporary Fiction

Opinions by Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Student of Light
By Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Published in House, Home, Hospitality Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 237 (2019): 180-182.

Poetry by Shazia Hafiz Ramji

"Astronaut Family"
By Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Published in Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 226.
Contemporary Fiction

Book Reviews of Shazia Hafiz Ramji's Works

Port of Being
By Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Reviewed in Postnational Argonauts by Gregory Betts