Born and raised in north-west London, Sheena Patel is a writer and director for film and TV. Her debut novel, I’m a Fan, about a woman obsessing over her lover’s other lover, was published last year by Rough Trade Books and is out now in paperback (Granta). It has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas prize and the Jhalak prize, and was longlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction. Patel is part of the poetry collective 4 Brown Girls Who Write, with whom she has published a poetry collection.
