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Celebrate Hera Naguib’s debut poetry collection Rupture Anthem with Lakeer!
Writers and poets Mahreen Sohail, Aiman Tahir Khan, and Nadia Amina Rabbani will share their works with us, followed by a conversation between Hera Naguib and Maira Asaad.
Poster artwork by Rabia Malik.
When: 24 October, 2026
Time: 12 noon US EST // 5pm UK // 9pm Pakistan
Location: Online
Tickets: Free
Hera Naguib
Hera Naguib is a Pakistani writer and educator. She is the author of Rupture Anthem (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026). Winner of the John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award and the 2022 Quarterly West Poetry Prize, Naguib’s work has been published in The Believer, The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, AGNI, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, New England Review, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. A former Fulbright Scholar and a recipient of the VIDA Residency Fellowship, Naguib’s work has received support from Art Omi, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Vermont Studio Center, among others. She lives between Lahore, Pakistan and Boston, Massachusetts.
Maira Asaad
Maira Asaad is an editor, educator, and writer from Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in 2023 as a 2023-2025 Fulbright recipient. She has read and edited poetry for Redivider Magazine and SUNHOUSE Literary. She is currently an Editorial Assistant at ONLY Poems Magazine.
Nadia Amina Rabbani
Nadia Amina Rabbani (she/her) is a Muslim, Moroccan-American, and over-educated Speculative Fiction Writer. She likes to weave threads from her diverse educational and North African background, as well as her current hyperfixations, into the tapestry of her writing.
Mahreen Sohail
Mahreen Sohail was born in Islamabad, Pakistan. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar, and was a Writing Fellow at A Public Space and a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Kenyon Review, Pushcart Prize XLII, and elsewhere. Small Scale Sinners, her debut short story collection, is a finalist for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award, and was longlisted for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize.
Aiman Tahir Khan
Aiman Tahir Khan is a writer and translator from Lahore, Pakistan, and the inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate of Pakistan. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Nimrod, and Shō Poetry Journal, among others, and has been nominated for Best New Poets. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Alone, I Say Your Name in the Dark (The Peepul Press, 2026).
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