Aisha Hamid is a poet and writer from Lahore, Pakistan presently in her first year in the Writing for the Screen and Stage MFA program at Northwestern University. She has an MA in Gender and International Development from the University of Warwick and a BSc in Sociology from the Lahore University of Management Sciences. Her writing explores South Asian women’s lived experiences, their agency and the multiple meanings it holds for them, as well as mental illness, generational trauma, and sisterhood. She was shortlisted by the Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women in 2019. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Vallum Magazine, The Aleph Review and elsewhere.