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Mahreen Sohail

Mahreen Sohail

Mahreen Sohail has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied as a Fulbright scholar. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Pushcart Prize Anthology (2018), A Public Space, Post Road, Masters Review, No Tokens, and elsewhere. She was previously a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (UK) and an Emerging Writer Fellow at A Public Space. She lives in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Fiction

July/Aug 2018

The Newlyweds

By Mahreen Sohail

The girl’s mother said the man would make a woman out of her. Three nights before the wedding she said, “Listen, I want to tell you something.” There was a […]