2022 Spring Contest Second Runner-Up: Can your colonizer’s country give you PTSD?

by Neha Maqsood

A woman reads

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About the author:

Neha Maqsood is a Pakistani writer whose essays and op-eds on South Asian culture, race-relations, and global feminism have been published in Teen Vogue, Business Insider, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, The Doe, DAWN, and other places. Her poetry has been featured in the Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, Ambit Magazine, Aleph Review, PROTOYPE, and Diode Poetry. Her debut poetry chapbook was awarded the Hellebore Poetry Scholarship Award and was published by Hellebore Press in 2021. She currently writes out of Karachi, Pakistan.

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