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Nadia Niaz
Multilingual language nerd, third-culture kid, dancer, powerlifter
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Dr Nadia Niaz
Writer, founder of the Australian Multilingual Writing Project, creative writing academic, counsellor
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Creative – recent major projects and commissions
>> Complete list of creative projects, publications and appearances
The Djinn Hunters, Rabbit Poets Series No. 19, Rabbit Poetry Journal, Melbourne, 2023
Featured Poet in Poetry in the City of Literature showcase, Melbourne City of Literature 2023
Editing The Circular, Issue 33, Sydney Review of Books, 2022
Editor for City of Greater Dandenong’s HOME Exhibition 2020
Writer for Melbourne City of Literature’s ‘Summer in the City of Literature’ series 2020
Created Australian Multilingual Writing Project Showcase at Generations Festival at Immigration Museum, hosted by Multicultural Arts Victoria, October 2019
Curated a special issue of the AMWP for Emerging Writers Festival Digital Stream
Editor and founder of the Australian Multilingual Writing Project, online journal of multilingual writing, November 2018
Academic
Academic publications
Multilingual Negotiations: The Place and Significance of Translation in Multilingual Poetry
Coolabah 30, ‘Translation, Poetry and Creative Practice’
June 2021Poetic Encounters: Language, Sound and Poetry
Axon: Creative Explorations 9.1 ‘Inhabiting Language’
May 2019
Doctor of Philosophy
Evolving Multilingualisms in Poetry: Third Culture as a Window on Multilingual Poetic Praxis
December 2011
University of Melbourne
Masters of Arts
Translating the Cultural Aesthetic: Faiz in Urdu, English and French
July 2007
The University of Melbourne