about
Amina Kayani (she/her) is a queer Muhajir writer, editor, teacher, and ghost-seer from unceded Cherokee and Muscogee land writing about migration, memory, and the monsters that follow us when we leave home.
Her writing has appeared in the The Offing, The Kenyon Review, The Florida Review, JOYLAND and elsewhere.
She holds an MFA in fiction from Purdue University, and has served as an editor at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sycamore Review, and Kajal. She is the managing editor and edits fiction for Anathema: Spec from the Margins.
She has received fellowships from Aspen Summer Words, the Elizabeth George Foundation, Hedgebrook, and Lambda Literary.
Follow her substack for her unedited ideas on myth, folklore, and migration at aminakayani.substack.com.
Amina lives in Chicago with her spouse and daughter.
Image caption: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 (Japanese, 1760-1849). Kohada Koheiji, from the series “One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)”, 1831–32. The Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection.