Born in Zambia on December 16, 1970, and currently a second-generation Canadian citizen, Farzana Doctor is a Dawoodi Bohra Muslim writer whose lineage goes back to India. Her family moved to Canada when she was 6 months old. She completed her master’s in social work in 1993 from Carlton University, Ottawa, and grew up in Whitby, Ontario. A social worker, psychotherapist, activist, and poet, Farzana is a bona fide social activist (Registered Social Worker, RWS) who has worked for a variety of social organizations that deal with mental health disorders due to sexual orientation, gender identity, and fluidity; substance use and abuse; and other addiction programs for homeless youth in Toronto. She has also been running her private psychotherapy practice since 2004. The mentoring and assistance also extend to providing training to groups and cohorts in psychodynamic and therapeutic cognitive practices. In 2001, she co-produced a documentary film about the family relationships of LGBT people in Toronto’s South Asian immigrant communities called Rewriting the Script: A Love Letter to Our Families. From 2009 to 2018, she curated the Brockton Writers Series (BWS), a bi-monthly literary reading series focusing on Canadian diversity and its representation in Canadian literature. She coordinates regular reading series in Toronto’s Brockton Village neighborhood.