Sorayya Khan’s most recent book is WE TAKE OUR CITIES WITH US: A MEMOIR. She is the author of three novels, NOOR, FIVE QUEEN’S ROAD, and CITY OF SPIES which received the Best International Fiction Book Award, Sharjah International Book Fair. Her work appears in Lit Hub, Guernica, Longreads, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, The Kenyon Review, North American Review, Oldster, Journal of Narrative Politics, and more. She was awarded a US Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research in Pakistan and Bangladesh for a previous novel, won a Malahat Review Novella Prize, and received a Constance Saltonstall Artist Grant, which took her to Banda Aceh, Indonesia on a project interviewing tsunami survivors. Most recently, she received an American Institute of Indonesian Studies Fellowship that supported her research and travel to Indonesia and a 2026 New York State Council of the Arts Support for Artists grant for the development of her novel-in-progress. She is the daughter of a Pakistani father and a Dutch mother, was born in Europe, grew up in Pakistan, and now lives in New York where previously she was a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University.
Sorayya Khan 
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