Ro Mehrooz

Ro Mehrooz is a young Rohingya poet, translator and award-winning photographer. Born in late 1999, he is originally from Arakan (now Rakhine State) of Myanmar. Growing up under the oppression of the Burmese regime, he fled his country at the age of sixteen avoiding arbitrary arrests. He started writing in early 2016, primarily in Rohingya, about the longing for his homeland and the harsh conditions his community faced. His poems were published for the first time in 2019 in I am A Rohingya: Poetry from the Camps and Beyond (Arc Publications, 2019) and various other anthologies and magazines. He published his first book, Poems Written Through Barbed-Wire Fences (Arc Publications, 2024). He founded ‘Fod’ (https://fod.art), a website to preserve and promote Rohingya language poetry. One of his photographs was featured in the British Museum exhibition 'Burma to Myanmar' in 2023.