A follower of Baha'i, Shirin Sabri is a poet and writer of fantasy fiction, who has been working at Townshend International School in the Czech Republic as a teacher of Civics, Bahá'í History and Bahá'í Studies. She is the daughter of David and Sue Podger. Her poems have been published in The Bahá'í World, in Canadian Bahá'í Studies monographs, in Imago and Poetry Australia. Previously she lived in Queensland.