NEHA MAQSOOD is a Pakistani poet and writer whose work explores race, displacement, gender, and the postcolonial condition. Her essays and op-eds have appeared in Teen Vogue, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Business Insider, and DAWN.

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Her poetry has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Ambit, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, and The Aleph Review. Her debut poetry chapbook, Vulnerability (2021), received the Hellebore Poetry Scholarship Award and was exhibited in the Peepul Poetry Room at the COMO Museum of Art in 2026. She was also a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s 2022 Global Poetry Prize and second runner-up in Columbia Journal’s 2022 Spring Contest.

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Neha holds a medical degree from the University of Bristol and is a graduate of Imperial College London.