Saad Ali

SAAD ALI (he/him) (b. 1980 CE in Okara, Pakistan) is a bilingual poet-philosopher & literary translator. He has been brought up and educated in the UK and Pakistan. He holds a BSc and an MSc in Management from the University of Leicester, UK. By profession, he is an Educationist and a Consultant (Academic Research, Management, Marketing & Communication). Ali possesses a broader worldview, which is a result of his experiences gained from having lived in a variety of cultural settings, such as, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Australasia. The cogs of his existential machinery are oiled by the muses of arts.

His new collection of poems, Owl Of Pines: Sunyata (AuthorHouse, 2021), is an homage to vers libre, prose poem, and ekphrasis. He has translated Lorette C. Luzajic’s ekphrases into Urdu. His work appears in The Ekphrastic Review, The Mackinaw, Synchronized Chaos, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lotus-eater, BRAWL Lit, Pandemonium Journal, Immagine & Poesia, two poetry Anthologies by Kevin Watt (ed.), two e-Anthologies at TER, Poetry in English from Pakistan – a poetry anthology by Ilona Yusuf & Shafiq Naz (eds.), and elsewhere. He has been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and Best Microfiction Anthology. His ekphrases have been showcased at the Bleeding Borders, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie in Alberta, Canada.

Some of his influences include: Vyasa, Homer, Attar, Rumi, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Freud, Jung, Kafka, Tagore, Lispector et alia. He enjoys learning different languages, travelling by train, and exploring cities/towns on foot. His favourite sport is putting his gray matter to test at chess. At the end of a long day, he prefers to unwind with the classic/psychedelic rock music.