Sharena Lee Satti

Sharena Lee Satti is a Bradford based spoken word artist, poet, event host, poetry workshop facilitator and educator. Her book ‘SHE’ was published in 2020 by the prize-winning publishing company The Verve Poetry Press and she is currently working on her new, as yet untitled, book, funded by the Arts Council, due to be published by the Verve Poetry Press in 2023.

Sharena’s poetry has been described as real and raw drawing on her own life experiences, struggles, cultural identity and upbringing – often addressing themes that can be difficult to talk about but which express a genuine vulnerability that creates the opportunity for others to also accept and address their own thoughts, feelings and experiences. Her poetry is also featured in ‘100 Voices, 100 Women Share Their Stories of Achievement’, to be published by Unbound released this March 2022.

Sharena is the co-founder of Spoke which is a non-profit organisation raising the profile of spoken word and poetry. Spoke is a community-based organisation that brings together emerging and established poets and performance artists to reach new people and places with poetry and spoken word – delivering spoken word workshops in various settings across education, rehabilitation and corporate sectors.