Shareefa Energy is a spoken word poet whose poetry is raw, honest and consistent against injustice. She was awarded with the UK Entertainment Best Poet 2017 Award. She released her spoken word neo-soul jazz EP ‘Reasoning with Self’ in 2015. Her poetry has featured on BBC One, Channel 4 and ITV. Shareefa performed at Poetry Meets Hip Hop in Berlin, the Verve Festival and has facilitated creative writing poetry workshops internationally, from Palestine to Sierra Leone. She is a member of the UK female South Asian poetry collective The Yoniverse. Her debut poetry collection is being published by Burning Eye Books this Autumn 2019.