Rabia Saeed is a writer from Kohat, Pakistan and a 2022-24 Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. Until recently, she taught Creative Writing at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Currently, she teaches in the English and Creative Writing Departments at Stanford University. She will be joining USC as a PhD candidate in the fall.
Publications
“Cadet College, Kohat”: The Seventh Wave Magazine
“Passing”: Meridian
“JFK”: Litro
“Sana Sana Sana”: Wigleaf
“Dear Wigleaf”: Wigleaf
Projects
Rabia’s novel-in-progress, Lucky Woman, is told from the perspective of a young pakhtun woman who comes to the US to study and live the life of an artist, and then when her visa is terminated, is forced to rapidly dismantle the life she spent years building abroad. Split between California and Pakistan and told through conversations with friends, the novel holds a lantern up to culture, migration, and class identity, and ultimately interrogates what we are willing to sacrifice for art and for love.
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