Welcome to the literary pursuits of Hasib Iftekhar.
A poet whose verses move between the intimate and the political — finding, in the textures of daily life,
the pressures that larger forces leave behind. His debut collection, Sequence of Dissolution,
published in 2024, gathers lyric meditations on displacement, urban experience, and the self in quiet
crisis. The poems draw from the Romantics and mid-century dissent, but remain rooted in a distinctly
diasporic present — attentive to what the mainstream literary culture prefers not to name.
A novelist whose fiction operates in the space where psychological tension meets literary form.
His debut thriller, Shudders to the Bone, is a multi-POV narrative that moves through Toronto's
social and architectural interior with the precision of a scalpel. Dark, formally ambitious, and
resistant to easy resolution - the kind of fiction that stays with you in the way only unresolved things do.
A workshop facilitator committed to writing as a communal act. Through the Writers' Collective of
Canada and the Toronto Public Library, he works with writers at every stage — from first drafts to final
revisions — in a space that is rigorous, supportive, and unafraid of difficulty. The goal is not inspiration
alone, but the discipline that turns it into something lasting.
Book your online workshop through the Writers' Collective of Canada — Tuesdays at 19:00 EST.