BOOKS: Forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in January 2026: Talking with Boys, Stories by Tayyba Maya Kanwal

Tayyba Maya Kanwal is a Pakistani-American writer, Assistant Fiction Editor at Conjunctions., and Associate Fiction Editor at Cutlleaf Journal. An absconded mathematician and technologist, a lover of lizards and morbid illustrations, she is Director of Workshops & Community Engagement at Inprint. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program where she was an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow, and an MS in Mathematics from the University of Oregon.

Some Recognitions & Good Stuff: Winner of Black Lawrence Press’ 2023 Immigrant Writing Prize and shortlisted for C&R Press’ 2023 Fiction Award for short story collection | Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2022, 2024 | Kenyon Writers Workshop 2024 | Runner-Up Witness Magazine’s 2022 Literary Award | Winner Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction 2022 | Pushcart Nomination

Some Publications: Code Lit | Witness Magazine | Meridian | Cutleaf Journal | AAWW’s The Margins | Gulf Coast Journal | Quarterly West | Juxtaprose

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