Zen Alladina (she/her) is a South Asian writer, poet, and tea sommelier living on the Treaty 13 land known as t’karonto|Toronto, Canada.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Solarpunk Magazine, AAWW's The Margins, and the ‘6City Poetry: Season One’anthology. She has performed at Lakeshore Arts' 2022 AGM, Toronto International Festival of Authors' Shakespeare Lives showcase, Toronto Harbourfront Centre, and more. She is the 2022 winner of Toronto Art Bar Poetry’s Discovery Night, and in 2016 she performed at Chapters Indigo’s National Poetry Month event, opening for Rupi Kaur.

When she isn't lost in words, she’s likely lost in the woods.

Photo by:Zahra Siddiqui