girl, glissading by Irteqa Khan
Nominated for Best of the Net
Irteqa Khan (she/her) is a Muslim-Canadian writer, scholar, and poet from Peshawar, Pakistan. She is a first-year Ph.D. student in Political Science at York University. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears in Erato Magazine, ANMLY, Honey Literary, The Feminist Word, The Hyacinth Review, and Aôthen Magazine among others, and is forthcoming in śvās magazine and Cobra Milk. Irteqa’s debut poetry chapbook, rēza rēza, was published with Gap Riot Press in 2020.