Bareerah Y. Ghani is a Pakistani writer, and editor 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 writes interview features for Electric Literature, championing works by BIPOC writers and Indie presses. She works as an Editor at The American Psychological Association (APA), and as the Fiction Editor at Lakeer Magazine.
Her writing has received support from Tin House Workshop and has been published in The Rumpus, Moon City Review, and elsewhere.
She is working on her first novel, set in Karachi, Pakistan.
Previously, Bareerah has:
- Taught multi-genre creative writing, literature, and English Composition at George Mason University;
- Served as Fiction Editor at: phoebe literary journal, Full House Literary Magazine, & Stillhouse Press’s Anthology of Disabled Writers, In Between Spaces;
- Served as Fiction Mentor at Adroit Journal’s Summer Mentorship Program [2021-2023], working with high-school students on developing their creative writing skills.
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