Tayyba Maya Kanwal is a Pakistani-American writer from Houston, TX. Her award-winning work has appeared 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, and an MS from the University of Oregon. With extensive experience in technology consulting, she now serves as Director of Workshops & Community Engagement at Inprint, Houston’s premier literary arts organization, Associate Fiction Editor at Cutleaf Journal, and Assistant Fiction Editor at Conjunctions.