Safinah Danish Elahi
Judge – 2024 Abida Rauf Poetry Award
Safinah Danish Elahi is a lawyer, novelist and a poet. She has earned her MFA in publishing and contemporary fiction from Emerson College, Boston. She has authored three books, a collection of poetry by the name, ‘The Unbridled Romance of Love and Pain’ and the novel, ‘Eye on the Prize which has been converted into a TV series named ‘Dauur.’ Her third book, The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon’ has been launched in the UK by the Neem Tree Press and nominated for the Asian Fiction Prize 2023. She is also the founder of an award winning independent publishing house, Reverie Publishers. She was official nomination from Pakistan for the prestigious International Writers’ Fall Residency 2022 at the University of Iowa where she participated as a fellow of the program. She can be found on intagram @safinah.danishelahi
