Tayyba Kanwal is a Pakistani-American writer from Houston, TX. Her short story collection, Talking with Boys, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in January 2026. Her award-winning work has appeared in journals such as Witness, Gulf Coast and Meridian. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program where she was an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow, and an MS from the University of Oregon. She is Senior Editor at Conjunctions, and serves as Literary Director at Inprint. More about her here: tayybakanwal.com.