Aiysha Jahan is a writer and teacher who has lived in Dubai, South Africa and Pakistan. The UK is currently home, where she teaches creative writing and helps develop projects that support young and under-represented writers. She has co-founded Write Beyond Borders, a mentoring project that brings together established and new South Asian writers. She has been published in Wasafiri, Shades of Noir and elsewhere. Her work is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review.