Amna Chaudhry

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UMN Gesell Writing Fellow

Non-Fiction


Minneapolis, MN
August 2026, two weeks

Amna Chaudhry is a writer and feminist activist from Pakistan. Her fiction explores the role of South Asian women in rewriting capitalist, patriarchal histories and building progressive futures. She has received fellowships in support of her fiction from literary mentorship program South Asia Speaks and the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. She also reports on labor organizing and local feminist movements in Pakistan. Her work has been published in Guernica, Caravan, Himal Southasian and Dawn amongst others.