Areej Quraishi

Areej Quraishi’s fiction appears in The Normal School, Indiana Review, Sycamore Review, Baltimore Review, Porter House Review, jmww, Southern Humanities Review, New Delta Review, and elsewhere. It has received accolades and finalist spots from Glimmer Train Press, CRAFT Literary, Salamander Magazine, and others. Her writing explores familial relationships, cultural identity, and memory. Her surrealist fiction is inspired by myth and fairytales. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington—Seattle and a PhD from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she was a Black Mountain Institute fellow. She is at work on a novel and two short story collections. Find her at www.areejquraishi.com.