Anum Asi is a writer from Karachi with a degree in Creative Writing from Cornell University where she served as an Assistant Editor at EPOCH magazine. Her fiction has appeared in publications including Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, Necessary Fiction, and the Aleph Review, won the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction and has been supported by Monson Arts, Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and VONA/Voices, among others. She is the co-Editor for Fiction at Lakeer Magazine and has taught creative writing at Cornell University and Habib University.