Sidrah Haque
Fiction Writer
About
Sidrah Haque is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Santa Fe Writers Project, Oxford University Press, Alhamra Literary Review and the National Book Foundation, Pakistan. Her work has been supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Goethe-Institut Pakistan and Seventh Wave. Before turning to writing full-time, she spent fifteen years in Pakistan's civil service and previously worked as a television news senior associate producer. She currently reads for Adroit Journal and is at work on her debut novel. Raised between Pakistan and the United States, she lives in Islamabad.
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Fiction
"The Bitter Way Home" (Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, Issue 33)
"Partition" (Cerebration, Issue I, 2013)
"Wild Thing" (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Vol 47, May 2011)
"The Memory of Fruit" (Cerebration, Issue I, 2009)
"Green Thumb and an Ache in the Heart" (Voices and Visions: Young Writers from Pakistan, Oxford University Press, March 2008)
"Cartagena" (Alhamra Literary Review, Issue 2, Spring 2007)
Non-Fiction
"Millenial Burnout: Why Are Women So Tired?" (Dunya Digital, January 2026)
Eating Your Way Through Chi-Town (Destinations, Issue 22)
48 Hours: An Insider's Guide to Nathiagali (Destinations, Issue 19)