Saqib Deshmukh was born in South London in 1967. He has worked all over the country as a youth worker and he settled in High Veecombe/Wycombe in 1997. He has been writing since 1984 and published a collection of his poetry Timebomb in 1992 and has been published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies as well as some dodgy publications that he would rather not talk about. Whilst living in Manchester he attended Cultureword’s Identity workshop. His first novel West Richardson Street was published in 2014 and is working on second novel Lilys Walk.

Additionally, he also been a music promoter, a DJ, an Arts trainer/Tutor, and managed bands such as The Kaliphz as well as setting up theatre companies AIR Theatre (1984-1989) and AAJKAL Theatre (1989- 1993 & 1999-2001). He has set up a production company Indus Valley Funk Productions to do stupid creative things and regularly works as a writer in schools, community centres and for local aunties. He has been working on a play called Rukhsati. 

Over the last ten years he has been a campaigner around deaths in custody after the death of a Pakistani man literally on his doorstep and has worked with the family to set up the Justice4Paps campaign. He fears that this has now labelled him as a domestic extremist and that the police are ‘after him’. The local police continue to refuse to confirm or refute this allegation. In his spare time he likes to eat and sleep.