Khadija Rehman (she/her) is an Indian writer who was selected for the 2021 International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in the IWP anthologies Crosswalks and The Heartworm, in Eunoia Review, Bright Flash Literary Review, Teesta Review, Flash Frontier, and The Journal of Undiscovered Poets. She often writes about love, violence, longing, and despair.
Short story by Khadija Rehman: “Some flowers bloom even when they shouldn’t. This one grows in cracks, drains, broken walls. Shameless little thing. You can forget about it, and it’ll still be there tomorrow.”