Suhayla Hepburn
The Bahamas
Suhayla Hepburn is a Queer Muslim writer and artist currently based in The Bahamas. Suhayla uses their creative practice to subvert the expectations of their respective identities and interrogate what it means to live as an intersectional Bahamian through self-reflecting on their lived experiences. Outside of their creative endeavors, Suhayla is dedicated to researching and analyzing the aesthetics of gender and commercialization within Bahamian art and literature. Additionally, they graduated from the University of The Bahamas with a BA in English and their poetry has been exhibited at Historic Nassau (2018) and has been published in Mistake House (2018) and Seagrapes in the Time of Moons (2018).
