A South Asian Canadian writer of fiction and poetry, Fauzia has published three novels: ‘Keeru‘, ‘Skeena‘, and ‘The Adventures of SahebaN: Biography of a Relentless Warrior’. Her eBook of poems ‘Holier Than Life’ was published in 2013. Earlier, she edited an anthology of writings of women of South Asian origin, ‘Aurat durbar: The Court of Women’ (Toronto 1995). She co-founded, edited and published Diva: a quarterly journal of women of South Asian origin (Toronto 1988-1995). In Pakistan, Fauzia worked as a journalist and screenwriter.

In 2020, Fauzia received the City of Surrey’s Arts & Heritage Literary Arts Award, and, the Punjabi edition of her novella Keeru won Ali Arshad Mir Award for the best book in Literature (prose). Her short story ‘The position of her power’ was a Finalist for the Sequestrum 2018 Editor’s Reprint Awards. In 2013, Fauzia declined Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. She was recognized in 2012 by peer group WIN Canada as ‘Distinguished Poet & Novelist’ for her first novel ‘Skeena’ (Libros Libertad 2011) and the first chapbook of English and Punjabi poems ‘Passion Fruit/Tahnget Phal’ (Uddari Books 2011).

Most of her work centers around the empowerment of women, writers and artists; positioning against religious oppression, class/caste based prejudices, systemic racism, homophobia and ableism; and supporting the struggles and rights of POC, Indigenous Peoples, Queer communities, refugees, and migrants. Through creative writing, blogging and arts activism Fauzia supports the struggles for equality. She publishes blogs on Punjabi literature, and, she is a co-founder and the coordinator of Surrey Muse Arts Society.