Huma Sheikh

Huma Sheikh is a doctoral fellow in creative writing at Florida State University. The recipient of fellowships from Callaloo, William Joiner Institute (UMass Boston), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, East-West Center (Hawaii), she has studied literary nonfiction with Christina Thompson at Harvard, and worked as a journalist in India, China, and the United States. She was the assistant online editor for the Southeast Review, fiction screener for Orison Books, stringer and reporter for Plain Talk weekly and Ka Leo newspapers in South Dakota and Hawaii. The winner of the Adam M. Johnson Fellowship, Charles Gordone Award, and the Dean’s award for Outstanding Academic Performance and the Award for Excellence in English at Long Island University, Huma is currently at work on her memoir and poetry book. Her work has appeared in Consequence Magazine (2020), Arrowsmith Journal (2020), the Rumpus (forthcoming), and others.