About

Senaa Ahmad’s short fiction appears in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Best Canadian Stories, and elsewhere. Her short story collection, The Age of Calamities, is forthcoming in 2026.

She’s received the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the Speculative Literature Foundation, and the Carl Brandon Society’s Octavia Butler Scholarship. Her work was also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Sunburst Award, and a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction.

Senaa Ahmad
Photo Credit: Calvin Thomas Studio