Fiction
Gold – Rowayat
A Sequence of Small and Big Events – Virginia Quarterly Review
Disorder – The Common
Beautiful – Michigan Quarterly Review
People in the Dark Get Lost All the Time – Split Lip Magazine
Ten New Words – Split Lip Magazine
Believers – Shenandoah
Displacement – Chicago Quarterly Review
Close Together – Room
Present Tense – Copper Nickel
Loved Ones – The Arkansas International
Swimming – The Southeast Review Online
The Effect of Heat on Poor People – Kenyon Review Online
Foreigners – Ecotone
The Leavers – Bellevue Literary Review (as “Exit for the Faithful”)
Tourism – The Southern Review
Bulletproof Bus – J Journal
Heroes – Colorado Review
Poetry
Perfect Day – Beloit Poetry Journal
There was once a little prince by Iftikhar Arif, translated from the Urdu to English – Asymptote Journal
Essays
Writing without trying to find solutions – Library of America
How I Wrote It: Through Loss, Running Injuries, and More – Shondaland
Coming of Age Amidst Chaos: Reflections on My Native Pakistan – Shondaland
Conversations
The Politics of Place: A Conversation Between Shze-Hui Tjoa and Farah Ali – Literary Hub
Coming of Age in the Climate Crisis: a conversation with novelists Farah Ali and Lydia Kiesling
– Orion
Moving Beyond the Trappings of Multilingualism: Farah Ali interviews Dur e Aziz Amnam – The Common
Others
“The Mural”: An Excerpt From Farah Ali’s “The River, The Town” – Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Presenting an Excerpt From Farah Ali’s “The River, The Town” – Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Awards & Mentions
Best Small Fictions 2022 – “Ten New Words” (published in Split Lip Magazine)
Pushcart Prize 2020 – “The Effect of Heat on Poor People” (published in Kenyon Review)
Editors’ Prize in Prose – “Present Tense” (Copper Nickel)
Pushcart Prize 2018 Special Mention – “Bulletproof Bus” (published in the J Journal)
Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction 2016, selected by Gish Jen – “Heroes” (Colorado Review)
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