Naima Rashid is a writer, poet, and translator. Her first book was Defiance of the Rose (Oxford University Press, 2019), a translation of selected verses by Perveen Shakir from Urdu into English. Her forthcoming works include a translation of the novel Naulakhi Kothi by Ali Akbar Natiq (Penguin Random House, India, 2022), and her own fiction and poetry. Her writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Asymptote, The Scores, Wild Court, Black Bough, Lucy Writers Platform, and other places. She was longlisted for the National Poetry Competition UK 2019. She is a collaborator with Shadow Heroes, a UK-based translation collective that works with translators to conduct translation workshops in schools. She has a background in languages and teaching and has taught French as a foreign language with the Alliance Francaise de Lahore and the French Consulate of Jeddah.