Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary filmmaker. She was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, before working for many years in India as a filmmaker. She started writing poetry at a young age, and describes herself as Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow who was adopted by India and married into Wales (her husband was the late poet Simon Powell). Her poetry interrogates ideas of identity and home, and for years she has been taught on the GCSE syllabus. She has authored seven poetry collections - Purdah and other poems (1988), Postcards from god (1997), I speak for the devil (2001), The terrorist at my table (2006), Leaving Fingerprints (2009), Over the Moon (2014), and Luck is the Hook (2018). In 2014 she was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. She divides her time between London and India.