Nafisa A. Iqbal is a Bangladeshi writer holding an MFA from Columbia University’s Creative Writing Program, where she received the Felipe P. De Alba fellowship. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Passages North, the Rumpus, the Ex-Puritan, wildness, Folio Literary, and Fourth Genre, among many other publications. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. In 2024, they were the finalist for the Waasnode Fiction Prize and won the Lascaux Prize in Poetry.
Nafisa A. Iqbal