Aisha Hamid is a feminist writer and poet based in Lahore, Pakistan. She was shortlisted by the Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women, 2019, and received an honorable mention by The Berlin Writing Prize 2019. She is an alum of the LUMS Young Writers Workshop, 2019, and is presently a mentee in the British Council’s Write Beyond Borders mentorship program. Her poetry has been published by Vallum Magazine, Rare Swan Press and The Aleph Review. Her narrative essay is forthcoming in a South Asian anthology on friendship and non-fiction essays under Folio Books. She is currently working on her first novel.