Hananah Zaheer

Fiction Writer

Author's 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.

Literary agent: 
Kent Wolf--Neon

Publications & Prizes

Chapbook:
Lovebirds (Bull City Press, 2021)
Journals: , ,
Kenyon Review
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency
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On the Seawall
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Prizes won: 

Lawrence Foundation Prize for Fiction 2018.

Notable story Best American Short Stories 2019.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Immigration, Parents, Schools, Women
Fluent in: 
English, Hindi, Urdu
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Last update: Dec 29, 2021