Sharan Dhaliwal founded the UK’s leading South Asian culture magazine Burnt Roti, which is a platform for young creatives to showcase their talent, find safe spaces and destigmatise topics around mental health and sexuality, amongst others.

She is also the Founder and co-Director of Middlesex Pride, an annual free family friendly event centering and celebrating the unheard LGBTQIA+ community in the heavily immigrant Middlesex area.

She created Oh Queer Cupid, a queer speed dating and comedy night, and has had bylines in i-D, HuffPost, the Guardian and was on the list of global influential women for the BBC 100 Women 2019.

She has also been on the Diva Power List 2022 & 2023, Attitude 101 2023 and nominated for Broadcast, Journalist or Host at the British LGBT Awards in 2023.

Her debut non-fiction, Burning My Roti, about how her Asian identity and queerness came up against capitalism and white supremacy, came out in March 2022 by Hardie Grant.

For writing enquires, contact: abi@thegoodliteraryagency.org

For everything else contact: sharan.dhaliwal@burntroti.com