Rida Altaf

Rida Altaf (she/her) is a writer based in Karachi, Pakistan, and a recently-graduated Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree in Comparative Literature. She is very much interested in all kinds of weird natural and supernatural stuff, including djinn and black holes. She graduated from the Clarion West Workshop in 2025, and has short fiction published in Tasavvur and forthcoming in Tales & Feathers. In her free time, she likes to read obsessively, chug down huge mugs of chai, and watch random videos about unsettling physics theories. You can find her on instagram at @rida.malta