Afshan D’souza-Lodhi

Community work d'souza-lodhi sits on the boards of Manchester Literature Festival and Pie Radio. She is also on the steering committee for the Northern Police Monitoring Project—an independent organisation which campaigns for an end to police harassment and violence. Her radio play "Chop Chop" (BBC Sounds, 2019), later adapted as a TV pilot, is about a halal butcher's shop run by Muslim women.

In her review of d'souza-lodhi's 2020 debut poetry collection, [re:desire], Tabatha Leggett said that the poet draws on multiple linguistic traditions in her poetry. Actor Shobna Gulati said the collection was "witty, beautiful and poignant, showing us language has no boundaries". In her review for Love London Love Culture, Emma Clarendon said the play was "as enjoyable as it is heartbreaking to watch". A four-star review by Jonathan Evans in The Spy in the Stalls said the play was "deceptively innocent and poetic", and that in the writing "Innocence and playfulness mingle with a satire that bites when we least expect it". In another four-star review, Raphael Kohn said the play was "fantastically feminist" and "Full of heart".

Works Anthologies My Dear Watson: The Very Elements in Poetry (Beautiful Dragon Press, 2015) SPOKE: New Queer Voices. Edited by Adam Lowe (Manchester: Dog Horn Publishing, 2015) Elevator Fiction (Manchester: Commonword, 2016) (as editor and contributor) sounds that exceed 80 decibels (Manchester: Commonword, 2017) It's Not About The Burqa, edited by Mariam Khan (London: Picador, 2019) Match Made in Heaven (London: Hope Road Publishing, 2020) Not Quite Right For Us (London: flipped eye, 2021) Tell Me Who We Were Before Life Made Us (3 Cups Press, 2021)

Plays "Teacups", performed by Shobna Gulati and directed by Kate Colgrove-Pope (Royal Exchange Theatre/Come Closer Monologues for King Lear, April 2016) "The Lesborrist Tapes" (writing as Tara Ali Din), produced by Adam Lowe (Roundhouse Radio, Manchester, Edinburgh, February 2013 – August 2015) "Round the Fire" (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Furnace, June 2016) "The Promised Land", (Southbank Centre/International Poetry Festival, Camden People's Theatre, Bolton Octagon, and 3MT, June 2015 to June 2016) "Part It Part Not", performed by Shakera Ahad; directed by Amy Hailwood (Royal Exchange Theatre/Memories of Partition Exhibition, September 2017) "Meatz R Uz" (Tamasha Theatre Company/RichMix, September 2017) "Assembly Women", based on the Greek play Assembly Women; directed by Natalie Diddams (Theatre in the Mill/Women's Comedy Workshops, March 2018) "Chop Chop", performed by Sharma Walfall, Shobna Gulati, Carla Henry, Murray Taylor and Sushil Chudasama (BBC Arts/New Creatives, October 2019) Santi & Naz, co-written with Guleraana Mir, produced by The Thelmas (Vault Festival, January 2020; published by Bloomsbury, 2025) Run(a)way, directed by Gitika Bhutto and performed by Amina Zia and Ashling O’Shea (Young Vic/5 Plays Online, February 2021) "How to Eat a Mango" (Georgetown University/ACLS Philadelphia, Screening Scholarship Media Festival CAMRA/University of Pennsylvania, March/April 2021)

Poetry [re:desire] (Burning Eye Books, 2020)

Television "An Act of Terror", produced by True North (Random Acts North/Channel 4, 2018)