For I Will Consider My Father Javed

Fatima Malik is a Pakistani-American poet with work published or forthcoming from Chestnut Review, diode poetry journal, The Margins, Waxwing, and others. She is working on her first full-length collection of poems, an excavation of grief after her father’s sudden death. She holds a BA in English literature and creative writing from Dartmouth College and a joint MA in journalism and Near Eastern Studies from New York University. While she currently lives in New York City, her heart is forever in Lahore.