Irteqa Khan

autophagy as an-nahl 

after “bee and woman: an anatomy” by anne simpson  

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Irteqa Khan (she/her) is a Muslim-Canadian writer and poet from Peshawar, Pakistan. She is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at York University. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears in Homology Lit, ANMLY, Honey Literary, The Hyacinth Review, Five South, and Aôthen Magazine, among others. Irteqa’s debut poetry chapbook, rēza rēza, was published with Gap Riot Press in 2020.