Nafisa A. Iqbal is a Bangladeshi writer and MFA candidate at Columbia University's Creative Writing program. They are part of the Nonfiction Editorial Board at the Columbia Journal, and co-president of Our Word—a student organization at Columbia that advocates for diversity and inclusion in the literary community. Her work has been published in Tint Journal and Commonwealth Writers’ adda magazine. Last year, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize among over 5,000 applicants.