Qurrat ul ain Raza Abbas

Qurrat ul Ain Raza Abbas (Q.) is a Pakistani writer and academic pursuing an MFA at the Jackson Center for Creative Writing, Hollins University. Her nonfiction and hybrid work explores shame, collective amnesia, and matrilineal histories. Her writing, nominated for the 2026 Best of the Net, has been supported by VONA, Abode Press, and Tin House. In 2025 she won the Melanie Hook Rice Nonfiction Award and was runner-up for the Gertrude Claytor Prize at Hollins. Her work is forthcoming in Jet Fuel Review, Homespaces: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, among other publications. Q. co-founded Shukriya Box, a humanitarian initiative building libraries for at-risk youth in underserved communities, and established Ravi: The South Asian Writers Collective. She is currently working on a memoir tracing partitioned women and the tender lineage of Lal.