Naima Rashid

Naima Rashid is an author, poet, and literary translator. She has translated works by Perveen Shakir (Defiance of the Rose, Oxford University Press, 2019), and is translating Naulakhi Kothi by Ali Akbar Natiq (forthcoming, Penguin India, 2022), both from Urdu into English. Her forthcoming works include her own fiction, poetry, and other works of literary translation. Her work has appeared in Asymptote, The Scores, Poetry at Sangam, Newsline magazine, and The Aleph Review, among others. She was recently long-listed for the 2019 National Poetry Competition