Kirin Khan is a Pashtun writer from Albuquerque, New Mexico. A VONA/Voices and Tin House Writers Workshop alumna, she has received fellowships from PEN America, the SF Writers Grotto, AWP Writer to Writer Mentee, and San Jose State, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her essay “Tight” was nominated by Nat. Brut for a 2018 Pushcart Prize, and her work has appeared in Foglifter,  Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere. Find her work at www.kirinkhan.com