Sakina Hassan is a freelance writer who creates short fiction and poetry in her spare time. Her story ‘The Shoeshop Jinn’ won the 2023 Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction, while ‘Bodies in the Air’ was longlisted for the 2023 Zeenat Haroon Writing Prize and included in their commemorative anthology collection Mightier. Her poetry has been published by The Aleph Review, And Other Poems, and Gully Collective.