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Zehra Naqvi

Zehra Naqvi is a Karachi-born writer raised on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, B.C.). She is a winner of the 2021 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She also won Room’s 2016 Poetry Contest. She holds two MSc degrees from Oxford University where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

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The Knot of My Tongue

The Knot of My Tongue

By Zehra Naqvi

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