Farah Ghuznavi

Farah Ghuznavi is a writer and newspaper columnist, with a background in development work in Asia and Africa. She remains an unrepentant idealist despite the wealth of empirical evidence suggesting it might be better to think otherwise. Farah began writing fiction in the desperate hope of sending the stories in her head on their way, by relocating them onto the page. So far, this strategy appears to be working. Her work has been widely-anthologised in Europe, Asia and North America. Judgement Day was Highly Commended in the Commonwealth Competition 2010, and Getting There placed second in the Oxford GEF Competition. In 2013, Farah published Fragments of Riversong (Daily Star Books, Bangladesh), now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. The book has been well-reviewed in World Literature Today (US), The Asian Writer (UK) and The Hindu Literary Review (India), among others. In 2012, Farah edited Lifelines, an anthology of Bangladeshi writing for the Indian publisher, Zubaan Books, also available on Amazon, and she was Writer in Residence with Commonwealth Writers in 2013. Farah can be contacted through her Facebook Author Page. Farah's work appears in Emails from India: Women Write Home (Seraphim Editions, Canada), The Storm is Coming (Sleeping Cat Books, USA), Curbside Splendor Issues 1 and 2 (Curbside Splendor, USA), Not Your Mother's Book...On Travel (Publishing Syndicate, USA), The Path - Winter Issue 2011 (The Path to Publication, USA) and Woman's Work (Girl Child Press, USA); The Monster Book for Girls (EXAGGERATED Press, UK), Lady Fest: Winning Stories from the Oxford Gender Equality Festival (Dead Ink, UK) and Journeys (Sampad, UK); as well as The Rainbow Feast (Marshall Cavendish, Singapore), La.Lit Vol. 1 (La.Lit, Nepal), Lifelines (Zubaan Books, India), What the Ink? (Writer's Block, Bangladesh), From the Delta (UPL, Bangladesh), and Fragments of Riversong (Daily Star Books), Bangladesh.