Humera Afridi is at work on a biography of the musician, writer, and decorated Second World War hero Noor Inayat Khan. Afridi is a 2021 recipient of the Robert and Ina Caro Travel/Research Fellowship and was a 2017 NYFA Gregory Millard Artist Fellow in Nonfiction Literature. Her essays have appeared in, among other publications, Literary Hub, Granta, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
July/Aug 2022
Mangroves on My Mind
Before, there were sea forests. Swaths of green at the edge of the city, swarm-thick as far as the eye could see, they articulated a lush margin on one side […]