Kishwar Naheed is a feminist Urdu poet and a writer from Pakistan. She has written several poetry books. She has also received awards, including Sitara-e-Imtiaz for her literary contribution towards Urdu literature. Naheed is widely acclaimed for her sharp and incisive poetic expression, for being bold and direct, and, for celebrating the universal human struggle for equality, justice and freedom. She also writes a regular weekly newspaper column in Daily Jang. Commentators and critics have noticed that, with time, her voice has grown “louder, more insistent and somehow more intimate”. Her first poetry collection was Lab-e Goya, published in 1968, that won the Adamjee Literary Award.