Afsana Ahmed is a writer and educator born and raised in Queens, New York. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. She is a fiction and screenwriter who was awarded the 2024 Henry Roth Memorial Prize and the 2024 Jerome Lowell Dejur Prize in Fiction. She is currently teaching Creative Writing at CUNY and working on a collection of short stories about Bangladeshi women, examining relationships between mothers and daughters.
FICTION Stories by Afsana Ahmed
Frog Umbrellas
Number 67
by Sonja Killebrew and Afsana Ahmed
Marc Palmieri is a professor, a writer, an actor, and even a baseball coach having once played for the Toronto Blue Jays. His plays, such as Waiting for the Host, Poor Fellas, and NY Times’ “Critic’s Pick” Levittown have been performed not only in New York City but around the country. His script for Telling You was produced by Miramax and stars Jennifer Love Hewitt.