Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipina Pakistani writer, artist and editor living in Cardiff. Her writing practice includes poetry and experiments in prose, as well as text-based film, installation and performance. Her work often explores collective and inherited trauma; in particular, the latent ways we speak about this through dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets as an anti-colonial strategy inherent to us. Sadia has shown work with The Bluecoat, The Mosaic Rooms, Artes Mundi, National Museum Wales, g39, Peak Cymru, Catalyst Arts, Arcade/Campfa, SHIFT, Gentle/Radical, the Eisteddfod; and has been published with Poetry Wales, Zarf, Amberflora, Porridge, Wales Arts Review and HOAX among others. She is a recipient of the Literature Wales New Writers Bursary Award 2020, Rising Stars Wales 2020, Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists 2021 and Pushcart Prize nominee 2024.
Sadia is also co-founder of LUMIN (www.lumin-press.com), a small press, curatorial collective and radio programme for experimental, radical and personal literature and art. She has spoken about writing, contemporary publishing and multidisciplinary archiving at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, Bangor University’s Women in Publishing Symposium, Cardiff University’s Archiving Gender Symposium, Gentle/Radical’s Imagination Forum and others.
