Durre Shahwar is an interdisciplinary writer, creative writing tutor, and artist. She is co-editor of Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (404 INK, 2024) and Just So You Know (Parthian Books, 2020). Her solo photo exhibition and accompanying pamphlet on archives, seeking sanctuary, and documentation, One of the Good Ones, was exhibited in Ffotogallery, Cardiff, 2026. Durre has a PhD in autofiction and Pakistani-Welsh identity from Cardiff University and was the recipient of a Future Wales Fellowship. Her work deconstructs established frameworks to present counternarratives that capture the complexities of lived experiences when situated within social, cultural, political, and geographical landscapes. Durre divides her time between South London and Cardiff and is currently working on her debut non-fiction book which was highly commended for the Morley Lit Prize in 2022. she/they.