Shadi Eskandani (she/her) is a poet, storyteller, editor, and astrologer, who spent her formative years in Iran before emigrating to Canada as at 9 years old, carrying the ancestral cadence of her homeland in everything she does.
Her recently debuted chapbook, Contusions (Locked Horn), is shaped by Shadi’s experiences as an immigrant child, growing up in the diaspora. Her poetry explores themes of (be)longing, dislocation, and the promise of healing.Shadi’s work has appeared in TOK: Writing the New Toronto and Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality. She has co-edited Homebound: Muslim Women’s Poetry Collection (Volumes I and II), and translated award-winning Iranian children’s book, Good Night Commander.
Shadi holds an MA in Social Anthropology from York University, and has studied poetry with Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation and Diaspora Dialogues Mentorship Program. She is also the winner of the 2020 LHP Urgency Chapbook contest.
Shadi lives in Toronto on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.
When Shadi is not writing and editing, she is immersed in her astrology and divination work at Aatash Intuitive Healing Arts.
