Imtiaz Dharker' is a Pakistani-British poet and documentary film-maker. She was born in Lahore in 1954 to Pakistani parents, but she was brought up in Glasgow where her family moved to during her teens. She currently lives in Mumbai with her Hindu husband, but spends time in London also.[1] She has written three books of poetry, conceived as sequences of poems and drawings. The main themes of her poetry are home, freedom, journeys, geographical and cultural displacement, communal conflict and gender politics.

She is a prescribed poet on the AQA GCSE English syllabus. Her poems 'Blessing' and 'This Room' are in AQA Anthology, Different Cultures, Cluster 1 and 2 respectively.

She is also an artist and documentary-maker. In 1980, she won an award for a short film.