Sabyn Javeri

Sabyn Javeri is the author of Hijabistan (Harper Collins, 2019) and Nobody Killed Her (Harper Collins, 2017). She has edited two multilingual anthologies of student writing, The Arzu Anthology of Student Voices, Vol I & II (HUP, 2019, 2018) as well as the upcoming Ways of Being, an anthology of Pakistani Women’s Creative Non-fiction (Women Unlimited, Jan 2023). Her writing has been widely anthologized and published in the South Asian Review, London Magazine, Litro, and Wasafiri, among others. She has won the Oxonian Review short story prize, and been short listed for the Tibor Jones prize and Jawad Memorial Prize translation prize. She is a Senior Lecturer of Writing, Literature & Creative Writing at New York University, Abu Dhabi.

Fiction
The Walls

We don’t have to hold those shelves up anymore, we think. We loosen our hold and a book comes crashing down.

She picks it up. A photo has fallen out. It is a photo of them together. She takes it as a sign. “Are you there?” she calls out. “Ali, talk to me,” she whispers.

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