Dr Sarah Hussain is a Huddersfield-based author and educator. Her novella, ‘Escaped from Syria’ was a winner finalist in the People’s Book Prize Award. In 2018 she won the Ms Shakespeare competition in Yorkshire and was commissioned to write a monologue, which was performed on International Women’s day. She was shortlisted in a competition run by The University of Huddersfield, and her short story, ‘You will be free one day, my dearest India’, is included in the anthology ‘Trouble’, published by Grist. Furthermore, it was ‘highly commended. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Literature in 2008, a Master of Arts in Creative Writing in 2018, and has recently completed a PhD.

Dr Hussain is the author of the book ‘In the Foothills of the Himalayas’ in which Vidhya, raised during British rule in India, watches her father fight for independence. After witnessing devastating floods caused by deforestation ordered by an English company, she realises the importance of protecting the forest. When she discovers a dangerous conspiracy, Vidhya bravely leads a group of women in a non-violent protest by embracing the trees, and risking everything in the process.

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