Parwana Fayyaz

Parwana Fayyaz is an assistant professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. She earned a BA and MA in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Stanford and a PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge. She was a Fellow of Peterhouse from 2020 to 2024. Her debut collection, Forty Names, was published in 2021 by Carcanet Press, and it was named A New Statesman Book of the Year and a White Review Book of the Year.

 

Parwana Fayyaz's work featured in PN Review comprises four contributions of poetry and one article, over a period of eight years. Also available is one translation by Parwana Fayyaz.