Hassaan Mirza

Hassaan Mirza is a fiction writer from Lahore, Pakistan, now based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University and is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati. His work has appeared in journals including Ploughshares, Joyland, and Michigan Quarterly Review, and Salamander Magazine gave him first place in its fiction contest. He was a 2026 two-week fiction resident at the Anderson Center at Tower View and is working on a novel and a story collection.