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Hananah Zaheer [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Email: 
hananahzaheer7@gmail.com
Bio: 

Hananah is a writer, editor, improvisor and photographer.

She serves as a Fiction Editor for Los Angeles Review, and as senior editor for SAAG: a dissident literary anthology—a project that seeks to make space for radical and experimental South Asian art and writing in the literary world, and is a Winter 2021-22 guest editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. She is the founder of the Dubai Literary Salon, an international prose-reading series. Currently, she is working on a novel.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Hindi
Urdu
Twitter/X: 
@hananahzaheer
Website: 
https://www.hananahzaheer.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Lawrence Foundation Prize for Fiction 2018.

Notable story Best American Short Stories 2019.

Education: 
University of Maryland
Agent/Agency name: 
Kent Wolf--Neon
Writers Retreats: 
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Tin House Summer Workshop
Identifies as: 
Asian American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Immigration
Parents
Schools
Women

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/hananah_zaheer

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/hananah_zaheer [2] https://www.hananahzaheer.com