Autor/-in: Parwana Fayyaz

Parwana Fayyaz was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1990. From the age of seven to sixteen, she was raised in Quetta, Pakistan. Once her family was able to return to Kabul, she finished high school and enrolled in her first English program in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where she also began her undergraduate studies. In 2012, she transferred to Stanford, where she earned a BA, with a major in Comparative Literature and a minor in Creative Writing, and an MA in Religious Studies. In 2016, she moved to Trinity College, Cambridge, to pursue a PhD in Persian Studies.