Sidra Ansari is a teacher, author and freelance writer.
She came to writing after breaking her wrist in 2018, and giving up her children’s taxi service to finally sit down to write. Since then she’s been shortlisted for AsianWriter Short Story Prize, and got into Penguin Write Now Live. Finding Peace Through Prayer and Love was her first book, published by Beacon Books in 2021, which she began as a series of blog posts for young women navigating life in the West as Muslims.
In 2023, she won Audiobook of the Year Award for her Ladybird audiobook, The Natural Wonders of the World. She is currently writing adult novels, after winning the Jericho Writers Self-Edit Bursary 2024.
Sidra currently runs a women’s weekly workshop, and monthly book club via her online creative writing group, Inkspiration. She is also writing regularly on her Substack Publication, Because She Writes. You can get in touch, and find out more at SidraAnsari.com.
Author: Women's Fiction - Bookclub
Represented by Hannah Sheppard