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SaschaA Akhtar is an A CE supported writer, translator and educator O ver a span of 20 years she has published six poetry collections and a collection of short fictions set in Pakistan entitledO f N ecessity & W anting(20 20 ,The 87 Press) A khtar has the distinction of being one of a handful of Pakistani women writing in English to be published in the experimental stream of U .K. poetries A Poetry School London tutor, herworkis widely anthologised andhas been translatedinto A rmenian, Portuguese, Galician, Russian, D utch and Polish. H er translations of the work of writer H ijab Imtiaz(190 8-1999), the first female pilot in the Subcontinent will be published by O xford U niversity Press, India in July 20 22