Fatima Jafar is a writer from Karachi, currently based in Northern California. She is a 2024-2026 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in 2023. She is also a recipient of the Kenyon Review Peter Taylor Fellowship. Her work has been published in The Kenyon Review, The Cortland Review, The Drift, Wasafiri, and elsewhere. She is working on her first full-length manuscript, ALL MY TREASURES.
Poetry
‘In the End of the Beginning of Our Lives’, The Best American Poetry 2025.
Three Poems, The Kenyon Review, Spring 2024.
'Beach Avenue' and 'Self Portrait as Bedroom Diptych', The Cortland Review 92.
'Lone', 'Imprint' and 'Velvet', Wasafiri Vol. 28.
'GHOST POEM', Pleiades 43.2.
'Coin', The Drift, Issue 8, November 2022.
'Outside of Glass', The Moth, Winter Issue 2022.
‘On Desire’, Nimrod Journal, Vol. 65, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2022.
'Blanket', Banshee, Issue 13, Spring/Summer 2022.
'Prayer in Worcester by the Lake', Eunoia Review, April 2022.
'Silence', The Shore, Issue 12, December 2021.
'Sonnet / Photograph of Wild', Mass Poetry, December 2021.
'Adult', The Sandy River Review, November 2021.
'August' and 'Baby', Anti-Heroin Chic, Issue 23, October 2021.
'Sonnet/ 1976', Pinch, Issue 41.2, Fall 2021.
'Shaheen', Jamhoor, December 2020.
Other Writing
Peter Taylor Fellowship, The Kenyon Review, July 2023.
Best of the Net Nomination for 'Silence' in The Shore, September 2022.
Fellowships/
Nominations
Write me an email at fjafar@stanford.edu.
Contact