Suhaiymah’s books include Postcolonial Banter (Verve, 2019), Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia (Pluto, 2022), and Seeing for Ourselves: And even stranger possibilities (Hajar Press, 2023), as well as essays in I Refuse To Condemn and Cut From the Same Cloth?. Her co-authored debut, A Fly Girl’s Guide to University — written with Odelia Younge, Lola Olufemi, and Audrey Sebatindira — reflects some of her earlier journey too.

Suhaiymah’s poetry has appeared on TV, radio, and stages across the UK, especially since her piece This is Not a Humanising Poem went viral in 2017, reaching over two million viewers. She was runner-up in the Roundhouse Poetry Slam that same year and has continued writing ever since — for the page, the screen, and, most recently, the stage.

Her debut play, Peanut Butter and Blueberries, premiered at the Kiln Theatre in London in August 2024. She has been part of the Royal Court Writers’ Group (2021) and writer-in-residence at Leeds Playhouse (2021–22).

As a public educator and workshop facilitator, Suhaiymah offers sessions that centre care, trust, and collective exploration. Her aim is always to create spaces where people feel safe enough to be honest — with themselves and with each other — and where they can imagine beyond the constraints of empire, capitalism, and secular modernity.

Outside of writing and teaching, she is a co-founder of The Nejma Collective, a volunteer-led abolitionist group working in solidarity with Muslims in prison, and a member of the Geographies of Embodiment (GEM) research collective, exploring how faith, body, space, and power interact in lived experience.

Above all, she hopes that her work — however small — can be a form of worship: a means of remembering Allah, resisting injustice, and building toward the kind of world that pleases Allah.