Bareerah Y. Ghani is a Canadian-Pakistani writer, editor, and educator currently based in Virginia. She holds an MFA in Fiction from George Mason University, where she received the award for Outstanding Graduate Student. She has acquired a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing from Humber College, Toronto, during which she undertook an eight-month long mentorship with Canadian author, Elisabeth de Mariaffi.

Bareerah works as a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly and Washington Independent Review of Books. She writes interview features for Electric Literature, championing works by BIPOC writers and Indie presses. She serves as the Fiction Editor at Lakeer Magazine, and also offers freelance services as a beta reader, developmental editor, & proof-reader. She teaches English at George Mason University, and serves as a recurring Fiction Mentor for Adroit Journal’s Summer Mentorship Program where she works with high-school students on developing their creative writing skills.

Previously, Bareerah has taught multi-genre creative writing, and literature at George Mason University. She has also served as the Fiction Editor for phoebe literary journal, Full House Literary Magazine, & Stillhouse Press’s Anthology of Disabled Writers, In Between Spaces (available through Amazon). Her writing has received support from Tin House Workshop and has been published in The Rumpus, Moon City Review, Defunkt Magazine, and elsewhere.

She is working on her first novel, set in Karachi, Pakistan.