Sima Qadeer is a Toronto-based author whose writing explores identity, belonging, and empowerment. Her debut story collection, Brown Girls, Grown Up, is forthcoming from Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press.

In stories that balance humor with heartache, Qadeer writes into the shifting terrain of adulthood—intimacy and aging, motherhood, faith and heritage, and the private negotiations of becoming yourself over and over again.

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