Salimah Valiani is a poet, an activist and a researcher. She has lived and worked on four continents, reflecting a history of migration in the recent and far past of her Shia Muslim community. Valiani has published widely in a range of milieux. Her analytical work in social and economic policy has appeared in institutional publications of the various organizations with which she has worked, particularly in Canada, India, and South Africa. Her poems have been published in feminist publications, literary journals, and political magazines. In 2005 her first collection of poetry, breathing for breadth, was published. Her poetry has also appeared in Sarah Husain’s politically-timely anthology, Voices of Resistance – Muslim Women Speak-out on War, Faith and Sexuality.