Shareefa Energy is a working class poet, performer, writer, author, activist, educator, storyteller, creative campaigner, workshop facilitator, arts and wellbeing practitioner and community organiser of Indian and Muslim heritage from Leicester and London. She is the author of poetry collection Galaxy Walk, endorsed by the late Benjamin Zephaniah. Her poetry is raw, honest and consistent against injustice, exploring themes on the diaspora experience, institutional racism, classism, police violence, womanhood. She received the UK Entertainment Best Poet 2017 Award, a nominee for the Muslim Women Arts & Entertainment Awards 2021 and for the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre 2019 award by the Arts Council. 

Her poetry has featured on BBC The One Show, Channel 4 and ITV. She has facilitated creative writing, poetry, storytelling and performance workshops internationally, from Trinidad, Palestine to Sierra Leone with schools, universities, academics, in immigration detention centres, prisons, with survivors of domestic violence and with those impacted by state violence.

Shareefa has worked on several poetry commissions for companies and campaigns to support brands and 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.