Beheshta Adel

Beheshta Adel , 19, was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she spent most of her childhood and adolescence. At 16, when the Taliban took over the country, she migrated with her family to Iran. Her passion for writing, particularly poetry, began during that time, when literature became her only shelter in an unfamiliar world. This passion deepened after an Iranian friend introduced her to the works of Sohrab Sepehri, whose poems free of rhyme and written like prose were unlike anything she had encountered before. Inspired, she began writing her own poems, mostly in Farsi but also in English. Currently based in Islamabad, Pakistan, she is preparing to move to Indonesia to pursue a bachelor’s degree in IT. While university life will demand much of her time and effort, she remains certain that poetry and literature will continue to be a refuge in both her good and difficult days.