Jamal Mehmood
Jamal is a London-based poet, writer and filmmaker whose work has been featured by the BBC, Magma, Popula, Hikaayat and Media Diversified. He was shortlisted for the Outspoken Prize for Poetry in Film in 2019, won the national Poetry Rivals in 2016, and is an alumnus of the UniSlam post-emerging cohort of poets. His film Muriid was released in 2021 by the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the BBC as part of the New Creatives scheme.
Jamal is the author of The Leaf of the Neem Tree.