About me

Kehkashan is a Pakistani artist and writer. Her work explores surreal and speculative elements deriving from her subcontinental roots and middle-eastern experiences. She loves curating communities, and founded an award-winning project, The Untold Edition, to blur the lines between insider and outsider art. In 2019 she graduated with distinction from an MA Fine Arts program at The University of the Arts London, and her thesis work was acquired by the UAL collection. Her work has been displayed in multiple group exhibitions in Jeddah, Karachi and London.

She won the Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction in 2019 and now has stories forthcoming in several magazines and anthologies listed below. She currently works part-time as a Revisions Editor at Manuscripts LLC. In her free time she volunteers as a slush reader for the award winning science fiction/ fantasy magazine Clarkesworld. She is a founding member, editor and art director at Tasavvur Magazine–a new magazine for South Asian speculative fiction authors. She lives with her husband and three young children in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Awards:

UAL community art award

Salam Award for imaginative fiction

Collections:

UAL Collection

Art Portfolio

Stories:

The Infinite Hourglass– Qualia Nous Vol.2 (an anthology edited by Michael Bailey)–Buy Here

Andheri Nagri –Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction —Buy here

Corpses Float, Pearls Sink, Luminescent Machinations (an anthology by Neon Hemlock Press)–Buy Here

Falling Down the Wayle, Chiral Mad 5 anthology– Buy here

The Petticoat Government, Fantasy Magazine – Read here

Steeling Minds, Kalicalypse anthology by Future Fiction– Buy here

The Aviary, 99 Tiny Terrors edited by Jennifer Brozek — Buy here

‘Almost Human’, Gollancz book of South Asian Science Fiction edited by Tarun K. Saint — Buy here

The Seeds that Grow Inside People, The Aleph Review Vol. 5–Buy here

The Shape of Snowflakes, The Translunar Traveler’s Lounge 2020–read here

The Art of Precious Scars, non-fiction essay long listed for the Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize– read here

More than a Mother, Poem in 100 Words of Solitude anthology of lockdown poetry, 2020 —buy here

‘The Puppetmaster’ 2019 — read here

‘The Man who could not Change the World’ 2015 – read here

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4 thoughts on “About me

  1. Hina Faisal

    I always admired you by the way you work and how you manage to come up with activity with your kids and for kids
    I have learned many things on top of it is how to deal with kids and how to make them busy
    Keep up the good and may Allah give you more himmat and may you deliver a healthy happy baby
    ??

  2. Hina Faisal

    I have always admired you by the way you work and how you manage to come up with activity with your kids and for kids
    I have learned many things on top of it is how to deal with kids and how to make them busy
    Keep up the good work and may Allah give you more himmat and may you deliver a healthy happy baby
    ??

  3. Zaitoon

    MashaAllah la quata illa billa. So proud of you. Never ,since the day you were born , have you ever disappointed me. May you get success in both the worlds ❤

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