Enbah Nilah
category spoken word
location Malaysia

Enbah Nilah is a poet, educator, and researcher from Malaysia. She runs an intimate poetry open mic and writers’ circle called Words’ Worth in Kuala Lumpur. She was a featured reader for “Inventories of Dispossession,” a Tamil literary symposium by York University, Toronto in 2022. She also collaborated on a Tamil literary translation anthology, soon to be published by trace press (CAN) with the support of Ontario’s Anti-Racism Anti-Hate Grant.


Her works can be found in the Anthology of Southeast Asian Eco-Writing (Mānoa Journal), This is Southeast Asia (AUS), Innovation for Change — East Asia, and Adi Magazine (US). Her interest lies in the "almost(s)" and "not-quite(s)" — the grey in-between regions of un-belonging.