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July/Aug 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 4 |

Mangroves on My Mind

By Humera Afridi

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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.

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