A professional speaker, author and coach, Shirin was born in a very prestigious family of Kolkata, India. Having completed a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English and a Bachelor of Education from Loreto College, University of Calcutta, she taught in schools for a few years until she moved to Canada.
Shirin is very passionate about writing from a very young age and contributed her poems to the local newspaper. Over the years, her poems have graduated from being thoughtful and fun to meditative, inspirational and spiritual.
Her own story of dramatic ups and downs and her remarkable journey of resilience gives her the wisdom and depth she has demonstrated in her poems.