Choman HardiChoman Hardi was born in Iraqi Kurdistan, her family fleeing to Iran in 1975 after the Algiers Accord but returning to Iraq after a general amnesty in 1979. Having been forced to move again in 1988 during the Anfal campaign, she arrived in the UK in 993 as a refugee. She studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford and University College London and did her PhD at University of Kent focusing on the effects of forced migration on the lives of Kurdish women from Iraq and Iran. She has published three volumes of poetry in Kurdish and a collection of English poems Life for Us (Bloodaxe, 2004). A former chairperson of Exiled Writers Ink! she has organized creative writing workshops for the British Council in UK, Belgium, Czech Republic and India. She was a resident poet for 10 months at Scotland's National Writing Centre in 2004 and was a recipient of a Jerwood / Arvon Young Poet's Apprenticeship. In 2014, she was appointed lecturer in the Department of English and Journalism at the American University of Iraq – Sulaimani, a post she still holds. Read More Read Less