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F I C T I O N & F O R T H C O M I N G
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- *What Is Waiting For Her
- Northern Nights, 2024.
- *The Wolves
- Translated into Japanese by Motoyuki Shibata & reprinted in MONKEY vol. 32.
- *Let’s Play Dead
- The Paris Review, 2020.
- Reprinted in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021, Best Canadian Stories 2021, Literary Hub.
- Recipient of the Pushcart Prize. Finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction.
- *The Women, Before & After
- PRISM International, 2019.
- Notable Story, Best Canadian Stories 2020.
- *The Skin of a Teenage Boy Is Not Alive
- Nightmare Magazine, 2019.
- Reprinted in the 2022 Short Story Advent Calendar.
- *Ahura Yazda, The Great Extraordinary
- Lightspeed Magazine, 2019.
- *Nothing To Fear, Nothing To Fear
- Uncanny Magazine, 2019.
- *Where The City Ends
- Augur Magazine, 2018.
- *The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls
- Strange Horizons, 2018.
- Translated into Croatian and reprinted in Sirius B; reprinted in The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Vol 2.
- Recipient of the Sunburst Award.
B I O
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 from Henry Holt & Co.
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.
She is represented by Alexa Stark of Writers House.
Senaa Ahmad 