Sheba Karim

Sheba Karim was born and raised in Catskill, NY. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law. After practising law for a South Asian Battered Women’s Project, she earned an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in 580 Split, Asia Literary Review, Barn Owl Review Desilit, EGO, Kartika Review and Shenandoah. Two of her short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize that is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press. It honours the best poetry, short fiction and essays published in the small presses over the previous year. Sheba is currently based in New Delhi, India where she is working on her next novel.