Suhaiymah is interested in words - what they hide, what they reveal, what they distract us from, and what they make possible.

Her first poetry collection, Postcolonial Banter (Verve Poetry Press, 2019), explores race, history, and narratives of “Britishness”. Her second book, Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia (Pluto Press, 2022), is an accessible exploration of how Islamophobia shapes our world; it is also available as an audiobook in her voice and has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish, and Tamil. Her most recent work, Seeing for Ourselves: And Even Stranger Possibilities (Hajar Press, 2023) reflects on the limits of representational politics and the secular frameworks shaping our ideas of freedom.

Suhaiymah’s essays appear in I Refuse to Condemn and Cut from the Same Cloth?, and her co-authored debut, A Fly Girl’s Guide to University — written with Odelia Younge, Lola Olufemi, and Audrey Sebatindira — captures part of her earlier intellectual and creative journey.

Since her poem This Is Not a Humanising Poem reached a wide audience in 2017, Suhaiymah has continued to write for the page, screen, and stage. Her debut play, Peanut Butter and Blueberries, premiered at the Kiln Theatre in London in 2024. She has also been part of the Royal Court Writers’ Group (2021) and was Writer-in-Residence at Leeds Playhouse (2021–22).

As a public educator and workshop facilitator, she tries to create spaces rooted in care, trust, and collective exploration — spaces where people can be honest with themselves and each other, and imagine beyond the confines of empire, capitalism, and secular modernity.

Outside of writing, she co-founded The Nejma Collective, a volunteer-led abolitionist group working in solidarity with Muslims and all people in prison, towards a world where no one is caged as a result social problems.

Above all, she hopes that her work — however minimial or incremental — may be beneficial in this world, for her life in the next.