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| First Name | Shumaila |
| Last Name | Hemani |
| Member Since | October 6, 2025 |
| City | Calgary |
| State | AB |
| Zipcode | T3B 0E7 |
| Country | Canada |
| Company | The Deep Listening Path |
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| Branch Affiliation | BC |
| Website | https://www.writinginthewound.com |
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| Bio | Dr. Shumaila Hemani (Ph.D., M.A., University of Alberta) is an award-winning ethnomusicologist, soundscape composer, and changemaker based in Alberta. A former Music Faculty member with Semester at Sea and the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta, Hemani’s work bridges music, ethnography, mental health, and social justice, earning her the Women in Music Canada Honour Roll (2023) and the Cultural Diversity Award (2016). Her debut memoir, Writing in the Wound: Acculturation, Trauma, and Music, tells the story of surviving systemic exclusion and rebuilding a life through art. Blending memory, autoethnography, and poetry, it invites readers to listen to the wounds that shape us—and to the music that helps us heal.She has also published prose and poetry in The Goose, National Observer, the Conversation, Arts Desk (UK), and New Forum Magazine to name a few, and was nominated for the Alberta Magazine Awards (2022) in the Poetry category. Hemani has delivered keynote talks and performances across Canada and the United States, using sound and storytelling to foster empathy, justice, and belonging. Her creative contributions include Alberta Musical Theatre’s A World of Stories (2020) and panelist in the Rapid Ideas panel at Puppet Theatre Calgary Festival (2025). She has served as Editor in Chief of Intontations-Graduate Music Journal at the University of Alberta, board member of the Arts for Social Change-Calgary Hub, and is an active member of Writers’ Guild, Alberta and the Canadian Authors Association. |
| Publications | Writing in the Wound: Acculturation, Trauma, and Music |
| Other Memberships | Writers Guild, Alberta Immigrant Writers Association (IWA) |
| Awards | Women in Music Canada Honours (2023) – inaugural recipient Cultural Diversity Award, Edmonton Arts Council (2016) State of Kuwait Award in Islamic Studies (University of Alberta) Asian Society of Music Award for Independent Scholars (2023) (formerly Asian Music Studies Association) First Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology (Independent Scholars Section) Second Prize, Listening During COVID Soundscape Contest |
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| Genres | Academic, Autobiography, Biography & Memoir, Comics & Graphic Novels, Drama, e-Book, Educational, Erotica, Fiction, Freelance, Gay & Lesbian, Health, History, Horror, Parenting, Poetry, Religion & Spirituality, Romance, Scriptwriting, Self Help, Short Stories, Travel |
| Available For | Readings, Presentations, Workshops, Book Club Meetings, Speaking Engagements |
| Services Offered | Book Reviews, Copywriting, Corporate Writing, Editing, Freelance Writing, Ghostwriting, Manuscript Reading & Consultation, Promotional Copy, Research, Scriptwriting & Screenwriting, Storytelling, Translation, Web Content |