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Maniza Naqvi (1960– ) was born in Lahore and has lived in Mangla, Tarbela, and Karachi, Pakistan. She has studied at the Lahore American School and Kinnaird College, Lahore. Abroad, she earned degrees at Mount Holyoke College in the United States, and at the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines. She currently lives in Washington, D.C., where she works on poverty reduction and postconflict reconstruction.
Naqvi is the author of four novels, Mass Transit (Oxford University Press, 1998), On Air (Oxford University Press, 2000), Stay With Me (Sama, 2004), and A Matter of Detail (Sama, 2008). Her short stories, poems, and essays have been published in various anthologies, including Shattering the Stereotypes (Olive Branch, 2005) and Neither Night nor Day (HarperCollins, 2007). Currently, she is working on a book of short stories set in Sarajevo.
