Maliha Iqbal is studying at Aligarh Muslim University. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Live Wire (The Wire), Cerebration, Kitaab, Countercurrents, Freedom Review, ArmChair Journal, Counterview, Writers’ Cafeteria, Café Dissensus, Borderless Journal, and Indian Periodical. She can be reached at malihaiqbal327@gmail.com.