Shadab Zeest Hashmi is the winner of numerous awards and distinctions for her poetry and essays. Her books include two poetry collections and a volume of essays and poetry titled Ghazal Cosmopolitan which has been praised by Marilyn Hacker as “a marvelous interweaving of poetry, scholarship, literary criticism and memoir.” Comb, her latest book, is a lyric memoir selected by Julia Bouwsma (the Poet Laureate of the state of Maine) as the Best Hybrid Book 2019. Zeest Hashmi’s poetry has been featured in festivals such as the Seeds of Peace concert in Portland (US), and in Museum exhibits such as the Victorian Radicals at the Birmingham Museum (UK) and a Photography/Film screening at the Imperial War Museum in Manchester (UK) in 2024, among other places.