Emma Al-Rashid is a British-Pakistani novelist and historian born in 1987 in Bradford and raised between West Yorkshire and Lahore. She studied South Asian history at the University of Edinburgh and earned an MPhil from the University of Cambridge on colonial print culture in Punjab. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Wasafiri, The Manchester Review, and the Punjab Past & Present journal.
Her short fiction received the Calderdale New Voices Award and was shortlisted for the River North Prize. She teaches part-time at the University of Salford, volunteers with an oral-history collective archiving South Asian diaspora life in the north of England, and divides her year between Manchester and Lahore. She is currently researching The Canal Ledger, a hybrid work about rivers, borders, and the printed word.
