Tayyba Kanwal is a Pakistani-American writer from Houston, TX. Her work appears in journals such as Witness, Gulf Coast, and Meridian. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston where she was an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow. Her awards include the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction, Black Lawrence Press 2023 Immigrant Writing Prize, shortlisted for C&R Press' 2023 Fiction Award and runner-up in Witness Magazine's 2022 Literary Award. She serves as Director of Workshops at Inprint, Associate Fiction Editor at Cutleaf Journal, and Assistant Fiction Editor at Conjunctions.