Sadiya Ansari is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist based in London.

Her work — including essays, features, Q&As and book reviews — has appeared in the Guardian, VICE, the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, the Walrus, the Irish Times, and more.

Sadiya has worked across platforms as a reporter, editor, manager and producer, and has taught journalism at the college and university level. Her work focuses on covering communities historically neglected by the media, specializing in reporting on migration — from labour market integration of Syrian refugees in Germany to queer asylum seekers struggling to secure status in Kenya.