Sadaf Halai

SADAF HALAI has published poems in Granta, Ploughshares, Salmagundi, Vallum, The Aleph Review, Journal of Postcolonial Writing and the anthologies Voices and Visions (Oxford University Press) and Poetry in English from Pakistan (Alhamra Press). Her essays and short stories have been published in Hybrid and The Life’s Too Short Literary Review. She received her MA in Creative Writing at Boston University and has been the recipient of the Writers’ Room of Boston Fellowship. She has twice won the Academy of American Poets University Prize and was a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award. She lives in Karachi, Pakistan, where she teaches English Literature and Creative Writing. She can be reached at www.sadafhalai.com.

  • Sestina for an Idiom

    I was fifteen and all fights with my father ended