About

Sorayya Khan is the author of NOOR, FIVE QUEEN’S ROAD and CITY OF SPIES  which received the Best International Fiction Book Award, Sharjah International Book Fair, 2015. She was awarded a US Fulbright Research Grant to conduct research in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and received a Malahat Review Novella Prize for what became a window into CITY OF SPIES.  She is also the recipient of a Constance Saltonstall Artist Grant, which took her to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on a project interviewing tsunami survivors. Her work has appeared in multiple publications including Guernica, Longreads, The Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Journal of Narrative Politics. She guest edited the most recent issue of Papercuts, an online literary journal initially focused on South Asia.  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 with her family. Her memoir, WE TAKE OUR CITIES WITH US,  is forthcoming in 2022.