Anum Asi is a writer from Karachi. Her fiction has been published in Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, Necessary Fiction, Litro Online and other places, and been supported by the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Cornell University, Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity, VONA/Voices and Monson Arts. She won the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction.

After studying Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar, she completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Cornell University, where she was an Assistant Editor at EPOCH magazine. She has taught fiction, poetry, and memoir at Habib University as an Assistant Professor, at Cornell University as a Fellowship Lecturer, and at the University of Toronto, and serves as a Fiction Editor at Lakeer Magazine. She lives in Toronto.

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