Kamal Parmar is Poet Laureate of the City of Nanaimo, BC Canada and has been passionately involved in writing since high school and University years. Her genre is poetry and creative non-fiction and she dabbles frequently with Haiku poetry. Her poems are simple, though poised and evocative enough to set the reader thinking. She has books published in UK, Canada and India and many publications in USA and in Canadian literary journals and anthologies. She is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets, a member of Haiku Canada and The Writers Union of Canada and a past Board member of the Federation of BC Writers. She is a peer reviewer for the Writers Union of Canada, screening poetry manuscripts of self-published writers. Kamal is also an active Board member of BC branch of Canadian Authors Association and her goal is to create awareness about poetry as an indispensable tool in our lives.