Hananah Zaheer

Instructor & Writer
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Hananah Zaheer is the author of Lovebirds (Bull City Press, 2021). Recent work has appeared in places such as The Cut, Kenyon Review, Best Small Fictions 2021, Waxwing, AGNI, Pithead Chapel, Smokelong (Pushcart nomination), VQR, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Alaska Quarterly Review (with a Notable Story mention in Best American Short Stories 2019) and Michigan Quarterly Review, where she won the Lawrence Foundation Prize for Fiction. She was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference 2019, a Smoke Long Fellowship finalist 2019, the Doris Betts' Fiction prize 2014 and a recipient of residencies and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Rivendell Writers' Colony and the Ragdale Foundation. She is fiction editor for Los Angeles Review, Senior Editor for South Asian Avant Garde, and teaches writing in the US and overseas.