Safinah Danish Elahi is an author, a qualified lawyer, and the founder of an independent publishing house based in Pakistan. Her poetry collection has been critically acclaimed and one of her novels has been commissioned for television. Safinah was selected for the Iowa International Writing Program’s 2022 Fall Residency and is often on the judging panel for writing competitions across Pakistan. In 2024, Safinah earned her MFA in contemporary fiction and publishing at Emerson College, Boston.