Shareefa Energy is a working-class Indian award winning poet, writer, documentary producer, storyteller, art and wellbeing practitioner, educator and anti-racism creative campaigner, based in Leicester and London. She is the author of the poetry collection Galaxy Walk, endorsed by the late Benjamin Zephaniah. Her poetry has featured on BBC The One Show, Channel 4 and ITV. Shareefa has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, the London Eye, the Houses of Parliament, Southbank Centre, Flamenco Festival, Cascadoo Festival in Trinidad.

Shareefa does bespoke poetry bookings to boost campaigns and bespoke corporate bookings for conferences and events. She opened up the general assembly conference for Lufthansa City Center in Malta in November 2025 and The G15 Ethnicity in Housing Awards 2025. She has collaborated with filmmakers, musicians, scientists, Flamenco dancers, creating impactful poetry.

Shareefa’s facilitated poetry and music projects with young people internationally, including at The Roundhouse, Brixton Youth Theatre, for The WOW Foundation. Shareefa has performed and facilitated workshops with schools, universities, in prisons and immigration detention centres, with survivors of domestic violence and with those impacted by state violence.

She was artist in residence in North Kensington Library in 2018 and 2019. She has facilitated projects to support the self esteem of women and girls and advocates for empowering migrant women. She's facilitated music and mental health projects with teenage boys of African and Caribbean heritage for SPOKE World. Her poetry is featured on the SPOKE app as a poetry meditation and on the Dead Man Phone app on Netflix.

Her poetry is raw, honest and consistent against injustice, exploring themes on the diaspora experience, institutional racism, classism, police violence, womanhood.

She received the Cobra Kai International Literature and Poetry 2023 Award, the UK Entertainment Best Poet 2017 Award, was a nominee for the Muslim Women Arts & Entertainment Awards 2021 and for the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre 2019 award by the Arts Council. 

Shareefa has worked on several poetry commissions for companies and campaigns to support organisations to deliver their message profoundly and to demand change.

She graduated with a BA International Relations and Politics degree at University of Westminster in 2013.

Shareefa is available for bespoke poetry commissions, performances and bespoke workshop bookings.