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Areej Quraishi teaches creative writing courses in fiction at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. She also has a background in teaching first-year writing and world literature. Her writing explores familial relationships, cultural identity, memory, and their effects on the psyche. Her surrealist fiction is inspired by folklore and fairytale. Her short stories have been published and honored in numerous prestigious literary journals. She is at work on a novel-in-stories featuring diasporic narratives and a short story collection based on magic and myth. Her novel blends psychological fantasy and literary realism. She is an alumna of the Los Angeles Review of Books’ Publishing Workshop, a Black Mountain Institute PhD Fellow, and the former Editor-in-Chief of Witness.

Ph.D., English with a Creative Dissertation, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

M.F.A., Creative Writing - Fiction, University of Washington - Seattle

M.A., English, Rutgers University

B.A., English, Rutgers University 

Wabash Prize for Fiction, Sycamore Review

Bhatnagar Outstanding Creative Writing Award, UNLV

President’s Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, UNLV

Grace Milliman Pollock Scholarship for Creative Writing, UW