Sabyn JAVERI (fiction and nonfiction writer, translator; Pakistan, UK & UAE) is the author of the short story collection Hijabistan (2019) and the novel Nobody Killed Her (2017). She is the editor of volumes 1 and 2 of the multilingual Arzu Anthology of Student Writing (2018–2019) as well as the creative nonfiction anthology by Pakistani women writers entitled Ways of Being (2023). Her fiction has been published in The London Magazine, Litro, Wasafiri, Oxonian Review, and more, while her nonfiction has appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, South Asian Review, and 3 Quarks Daily, among others. She currently teaches writing at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Her participation is made possible by a gift from the estate of William B. Quarton to the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation.