Bio

Sabrina Shabana Vellani is an Indo-Canadian actress and poet born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Some of her work can be found at @sabrinavellanipoetry on Instagram, where she takes photos of nightfall and the seasons, presented with lines of poetry. Her poetry can be found in The New York Quarterly, The Literary Review of Canada, Dark Winter Literary and more. She has just finished her time working on her debut poetry manuscript with the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. Her latest poem, Identity, was released recently in Blue Moon Publishers' Canada Is Our Poem Anthology as well as her three poems, (worked on with SFU's The Writer's Studio), in Tidewater Press' Emerge 25 collection. She has various poems about to be released by end of the year in Pulp Magazine, The Antigonish Review and PRISM International's 64.2 Issue. She has acted in a number of Canadian theatre productions and has worked on short films, web-series, commercials, film and television. She graduated with a BFA from UBC's Theatre Acting program in 2018.

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shoes,
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closet, exhibit my own ends.