Bio
Farah Ghuznavi is a writer, newspaper columnist and development worker, who remains an unrepentant idealist despite empirical evidence suggesting the wisdom of thinking otherwise. Her work has been published in the UK, US, Canada, France, Singapore, India, Nepal and her native Bangladesh. Judgement Day was Highly Commended in the Commonwealth Competition 2010, and Getting There placed second in the Oxford University GEF Competition. Currently finalizing her own short story manuscript, Farah recently edited Lifelines, an anthology for Zubaan Books.
Farah is writer-in-residence with Commonwealth Writers, and has been a panellist at the South Asian Literature Festival (UK), and Apeejay Kolkata Lit Fest, CALM Fest Shillong, Kolkata Lit Meet and Lit for Life Chennai (India). She is also a member of the organizing committee for Hay Festival Dhaka.