Mahrukh Aamir is a writer from Lahore, Pakistan. She has an MFA in fiction from Boise State University. She has also taught undergraduate courses in creative writing, most recently a course on autofiction at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Mahrukh is at work on a novel.

Younis B. Azeem, a Fulbright Scholar, earned his MFA in Creative Writing from The New School in New York City.

A WriteOn NYC Fellow, he also hosted the reading series TNS After Hours in Manhattan's East Village.  Azeem is a 2025 Best of the Net nominated writer whose work appears in JAKE, Evergreen Review and elsewhere. Additionally, he is a stand-up comedian who created and hosted Stand Up LUMS, and has performed in various venues across Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, and New York City. He currently teaches various courses on Creative Writing in the English Department at LUMS, including An Introduction to Humour Writing. 

Zuha Siddiqui is an award-winning journalist based in Pakistan, covering climate, technology and human rights. Her reporting has appeared in Foreign Policy, VICE, Slate, NPR, and other publications. Most recently, she was a Labor and Tech fellow at Rest of World, covering how technology impacts work and workers in South Asia. 

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Zuha's work has been supported by fellowships from the South Asian Journalism Association, One World Media and the EU Journalism Fund. Her reporting on Karachi The Sinking Cities Project won The European Journalism Centre’s 2023 Climate Journalism Award. That same year, she was a finalist for the Thomson Foundation’s Young Journalist Award.

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Zuha holds a Masters in Journalism and Near Eastern Studies from NYU, where she was a Falak Sufi scholar. She has also received training from the International Center for Journalists, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and the Center for Excellence in Journalism and the Oxford Climate Journalism Network.

Javeria Hasnain is a poet, translator, and educator from Karachi, and the author of SIN (Chestnut Review, 2024). Her poems and prose have appeared widely, most recently, in Pleiades, Poet Lore, The Brazenhead Review, and Foglifter. She received her MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York as a Fulbright scholar, and was selected as a 2023-24 Educational Associate at Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She has received fellowships and support for her writing from Sewanee Writers Conference, International Writing Program (IWP), and Tamaas. Hasnain has taught creative writing workshops with Brooklyn Poets, Writing Workshops, Writopia Lab Inc, Kitab Ghar, and Writing Colab, among others. She has previously also worked with Cave Canem Foundation, Alice James Press, and Tupelo Press. She is currently teaching at Habib University and reads for The Rumpus.

Noor Rehman is a writer from South Waziristan, Wana. Noor received his bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Government College University, Lahore (GCUL) and completed his MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from University of Central Florida, Orlando (UCF) as a Fulbright Scholar. Currently, he teaches at the University of Central Punjab (UCP) as part of the Faculty of Languages and Literature. Noor is also working on his debut novel, Clay Bodies, which tells the story of a fictional character Armaan Khan in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan during the 1970s and 1980s. He participated in the LUMS Young Writers Workshop in 2018.

Aneeqa Wattoo is a writer and translator based in Lahore, Pakistan. She was awarded the Sir Anwar Pervez-University of Oxford Graduate Scholarship to pursue an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford. Her research and writing explore themes of motherhood, personal freedom and the politics of space in Pakistan. Her poetry and essays have appeared in various local and international literary journals including Meridian, McNeese Review, New Ohio Review, New Plains Review, Southern Humanities Review, Dawn and Lakeer Magazine among others. Her creative nonfiction and poetry have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and she is the Founder of The Creative Room, an interdisciplinary humanities platform for online learning focused on South Asia. She is the host of a podcast, Unpacking Pakistan- Discourses about the Culture, Politics and Economy of Pakistan at Lahore University of Management Sciences.​

Rabia Saeed is from Kohat, Pakistan and a 2022-24 Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. She was the winner of the 2020 Harvey Swados Fiction Prize, the 2021 James W. Foley Award, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in Meridian, Wigleaf, and The Seventh Wave Magazine. Until recently, she taught Creative Writing at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Currently, she teaches in the English and Creative Writing departments at Stanford University. She will be joining USC as a PhD candidate in the fall.

Sara Khan is a writer and editor from Peshawar. She has an MA in Cultural Criticism from NYU, where she was an American Association of University Women International Fellow and a Stenbeck Scholar.

Sara’s day job involves editing policy research at an Islamabad-based think tank. To offset this, she edits and teaches, preferring to help others tell their stories while she tries to make time for her own writing. Her work is most concerned with women navigating domesticity and modernity, and explores themes of intimacy, nostalgia, friendship, and the big questions hidden away in everyday things.

She was shortlisted for the Zeenat Haroon Writing Prize in 2020, and winner of The Missing Slate’s New Voices Competition in 2017. Her work has appeared in two Pakistani anthologies: Narrating Pakistan and Mightier.