Zehra Naqvi is a writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She is the author of The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose (McClelland & Stewart 2024). She is a receipient of the 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers awarded by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Her poem ‘forgetting urdu’ was the winner of Room’s 2016 Poetry Contest. Zehra has written and edited for various publications internationally. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Room, The New Quarterly, DAWN, The Minola Review, Living Hyphen, Contemporary Verse 2, PRISM international, The Capilano Review, and elsewhere. 

Zehra has a BA Hons. in English and Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She also holds an MSc in Migration Studies and an MSc in Social Anthropology from Oxford University, where studied as a Rhodes Scholar. 

Zehra was born in Karachi and raised on unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver, BC).