Yasmeen Fahmy is an Egyptian American writer and mother based in New Jersey. Her short fiction is published or forthcoming in Inner Worlds, Night Shades Mag, Saros Speculative Fiction, The Sprawl Mag, hex literary and If There's Anyone Left.
She is currently attending the 2026 Clarion West Six-Week Workshop. You can reach her on the Codex forums, @yasmeenfahmy or at yasmeen[dot]fahmy[at]gmail[dot]com.
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Her speculative writing explores pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, the experiences of heritage speakers and immigrants, non-military moral injury, dogma and cult-like environments, and emotional evasion. She's fond of writing by Laila Lalami, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mona Eltahawy, Ta-Nahisi Coates, Mary Oliver, and Ursula K. LeGuin.
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She holds a B.A. in Economics and Geography and an M.A. in Communication and Media from Rutgers University. After a decade in nonprofit communications and marketing, she earned a PMP® certification in 2020 and worked as a Digital Project Manager at Bluecadet and O/M Studio until 2022.
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She lives in an 1860s house by the Delaware River/Lenapewhittuck with her partner, children, and cat, and enjoys long walks, warm rain, and cooking with garlic.
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She's not sure how this whole writing thing is going to work out but it's been energizing doing something she's long wanted, and she's going to keep going until somebody stops her.