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Tayyba Kanwal is a Pakistani-American writer, Managing Editor at Conjunctions., and Associate Fiction Editor at Cutleaf Journal. An absconded mathematician and technologist, she is Literary Director 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.
Books:
TALKING WITH BOYS (Black Lawrence Press, 2026)
Publications:
Debutiful l Lakeer | Witness Magazine | Meridian | Cutleaf Journal | AAWW’s The Margins | Gulf Coast Journal | Quarterly West | Juxtaprose | Code Lit
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
Interviews & Media - Talking with boys
Interview: BOMB MAGAZINE
Interview: THE RUMPUS
Interview: DIVERSE BOOKS REVIEW PODCAST
Interview: CHOSEN TONGUE PODCAST
Interview: WRITERS CENTER VIRTUAL CRAFT CHAT
Review: SOUTHERN REVIEW OF BOOKS
Review: TINT JOURNAL
Excerpt: SCROLL.IN | Talking with Boys, “Rotis”