Maya Kanwal is a Pakistani-American writer and Assistant Fiction Editor at Conjunctions. An absconded mathematician and technologist, a lover of lizards and morbid illustrations, she now teaches creative writing at the University of Houston and the Texas Medical Center. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program where she was an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow, and an MS from the University of Oregon.
Maya has completed a linked short story collection, and is working on (many) a novel.
Some Recognitions & Good Stuff: Shortlisted for C&R Press’s 2023 Fiction Award for short story collection | Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2022 | Runner-Up Witness Magazine’s 2022 Literary Award | Winner Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction 2022 | Pushcart Nomination for "Pruned Branches"
Some Publications: Code Lit | Witness Magazine | Meridian | Cutleaf Journal | AAWW’s The Margins | Gulf Coast Journal | Quarterly West | Juxtaprose
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