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Munib Khan

Munib Khan is a short story writer and novelist. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Purdue University and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from Florida State University. He attended Connecticut College on a full scholarship where he wrote a short story collection for his undergraduate thesis under the supervision of American novelist Blanche Boyd. He was awarded the Emerging Writer Prize at the Key West Literary Seminars. 

His fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, American Literary Review, The Normal School, Barcelona Review, Southword: New International Writing, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the National Society of Arts and Letters, Toor Cummings Center and Vermont Studio Center, among others. 

CV

  1. “The Impossibility of Narrating Violence,” Wasafiri, Spring 2025.
  2. “Shah Hussain,” American Literary Review, Fall 2022.
  3. “Charity,” Massachusetts Review, Spring 2021, Print.
  4. “A Season for Suicides,” Hobart, Summer 2019,
  5. “An Encounter,” Southword: New International Writing, Summer 2019.
  6. “No Extraordinary Matter,” Cosmonauts Avenue.
  7. “He Was a Friend of Mine,” The Normal School, Spring 2020.
  8. “Kurram Valley,” The Barcelona Review, Fall 2018.
  9. “Once Upon a Time on a Mountain Pass,” Prairie Schooner, Fall 2016.

 

Newspaper Articles, Reviews & Interviews

  1. The River, The Town by Farah Ali. Book Review. World Literature Today. Spring 2024.
  2. An Interview with Pakistani Writer Munib Khan by Mishal Mirza. Michigan Quarterly Review. Spring 2025.
  3. “A Site for a Rare Pilgrimage,” The News, Pakistan.
  4. 10 Questions with Munib Khan, Spring 2021, with Edward Clifford of Massachusetts Review.
  5. Ways to  Survive: An Interview with Farah Ali, Spring 2021, a conversation with Pakistani author, Farah Ali about her debut collection, People Want to Live