Areej Quraishi is an author and teacher. Her writing explores familial relationships, cultural identity, memory, and their effects on the psyche. Her surrealist fiction is inspired by folklore and fairytale. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington-Seattle and an MA from Rutgers University. She is at work on a novel-in-stories featuring immigrant narratives and a novel and short story collection based on magic, myth, and psychological fantasy. Her stories appear in The Normal School, Indiana Review, Sycamore Review, Identity Theory, Cola Literary Review, jmww, Porter House Review and elsewhere. She was a finalist for Salamander Magazine’s 2021 Short Fiction Contest and the winner of the 2023 Wabash Prize for Fiction. She is a PhD candidate at UNLV, an alumna of the Los Angeles Review of Books’ Publishing Workshop, and the former Editor of Witness.