Communication and Design
Education
- The New School, New York – MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry), Ongoing (2022 – Present)
- Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore – BSc Hons. in Management Sciences, 2021
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Tennessee Williams Scholarship for the 2024 Sewanee Writers Conference
- Finalist: 2024 Jake Adam York Prize, published by Milkweed Editions
- Longlisted: 2024 Gregory Djanikian Scholarship for Poetry
- Selected for SAFTA Summer Residency 2023
- Honorable Mention: 2022 Penrose Poetry Prize
- Runner-up: 2022 The Bird in Your Hands Prize
- Work-Exchange Scholarship for AWP 2023
- Nominated for Best Microfiction 2023 and Best of the Net 2023
- Fulbright Scholarship for Master’s 2022-23
- International Writing Program (IWP) – Summer Institute 2021 and 2022, University of Iowa
Biography
Javeria Hasnain is a Karachi-based poet, translator, educator, and Fulbright scholar, and the author of SIN (Chestnut Review, 2024). Her poetry has been published widely, in the US, UK, Pakistan, and Australia, in renowned publications such as Pleiades, The Aleph Review, Mascara Literary Review, Poet Lore, The Brazenhead Review, and Foglifter. She completed her MFA Poetry candidate at The New School, and currently serves as a Poetry Reader at The Rumpus, and a Manuscript Reader at Tupelo Press.
Passionate about the intersection of literary arts and education, Javeria has led creative workshops, including one at Frederick Douglass Public School in Harlem, and at Writopia Lab in New York, earning praise for her engaging pedagogy. She has also served as a Writing Tutor and Teaching Assistant at Habib University, designing workshops and tutorials on writing and close reading.
Javeria has worked with esteemed literary organizations like Cave Canem Foundation, The Adroit Journal, and SABAQ. Selected as a 2023–24 Educational Associate at Teachers & Writers Collaborative, she is deeply committed to fostering creative and intellectual growth in her students.
Publications
Chapbook
- SIN, Chestnut Review, July 2024
Poetry
- “Aubade after a Blizzard,” Foglifter, Fall 2024
- “‘Awrah,” Brazenhead Review, May 2024
- “Insectistan,” the other side of hope, October 2023
- “Origin Story (excerpts),” Lakeer Magazine, September 2023
- “Water is a sin” and “on returning,” Pleiades, forthcoming 2023
- “Smallness is a sin” and “Fireflies,” Afterpast Review, September 2023
- “No Country for Young Women,” PoetLore, Spring 2023 (print)
- “I only came to see god,” GASHER, Spring 2023
- “Sadness is a Sin” and “The Body is a Sin,” Abandon Journal, April 2023
- “The Poets” and “Self-Portrait as a god in the shower,” Thin Air Magazine, March 2023 (print)
- “No Man’s Land,” Mud Room magazine, February 2023
- “Self-portrait as a Witness” and “Those that announce their departure as a probable return,” Gulf Stream Magazine, January 2023
- “Cloud in the shape of a human” and “Tangerines,” beestung, November 2022
- “Mythomania,” Better than Starbucks, November 2022 (also in print)
- “What I Learned of Poetry Through Swimming,” Vagabond City Lit, August 2022
- “My Mother & I (Do Not) Talk about our Dead Brothers,” Better than Starbucks, August 2022
- “On Water & Grief: A Zuihitsu,” Substantially Unlimited, July 2022 (defunct)
- “Devi invades the indigenous flora of Karachi” and “Last Goodbye in Bahawalpur,” Scrawl Place, July 2022
- “Contending with ‘you’ after you are gone” and “Silence,” The Margins, June 2022
- “All my friends are fruits,” “Otitis Externa,” and “I thank god every time I reach home safe,” Always Crashing, June 2022
- “Wonder of the World,” Stone Poetry Quarterly, May 2022
- “A Pear,” Jersey Devil Press, April 2022
- “Bristling” and “What is more important than planting trees?” Superstition Review, December 2021
- “Sweet Insects,” Bending Genres, October 2021
- “How to Grow a Flower” and “Lies I Haven’t Told Yet,” The Aleph Review, July 2021 (print)
- “A Colored Sestina,” Gutter, February 2021 (print)
- “In Search of Sustenance” and “There are Only Ghosts,” Anatolios, June 2020
- “An Exercise in Destruction” and “Oranges,” Anti-Heroin Chic!, June 2020
Prose
- “Because Grief is Collective, Healing is Too,” Public Books, Fall 2024
- “Biography of V,” The Broken Spine, January 2024
- “Of Land and Of Water,” Scrawl Place, Sept 2023
- “Head in the Clouds,” Isele Magazine, July 2023
- “Bride,” Mascara Review Literary, May 2023
Review
- “Skirting with the Sonnet: Tender Machines Book Review,” diaCRITICS, August 2023
Pedagogy
- “It All Starts with Listening,” Teachers & Writers Magazine, June 2024
- “Familiarizing the Abstract: Making Sculptures with Blind and Visually-Impaired People,” Teachers & Writers Collaborative, June 2024
