Suhayla Hepburn is a Queer Muslim writer and artist currently based in The Bahamas. Suhayla
uses their creative practice to subvert the expectations of their respective identities and
interrogate what it means to live as an intersectional Bahamian through self-reflecting on their
lived experiences. Outside of their creative endeavors, Suhayla is dedicated to researching and
analyzing the aesthetics of gender and commercialization within Bahamian art and literature.
Additionally, they graduated from the University of The Bahamas with a BA in English and their
poetry has been exhibited at Historic Nassau (2018) and has been published in Mistake House
(2018), Seagrapes in the Time of Moons (2018), Intersect Antigua (2022).