Zain Saeed
Judge – 2024 Abida Rauf Poetry Award
Zain Saeed is the author of Little America, winner of the Karachi Literature Festival English Fiction Prize 2022, and The Year of Sound and Heat, also nominated for the same award. He earned his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. His work has appeared in several places, including Glimmer Train, the Kenyon Review, The Hindu BL ink, and the Freiburg Review. He lives in Ifrane, Morocco, where he teaches creative writing at Al-Akhawayn University. He can be found on instagram @zainssaeed.