Aquila Ismail

Aquila Ismail is a Karachi-based author and social worker. She has written extensively on literature, women’s issues, and the development concerns of Karachi for leading Pakistani newspapers and magazines. At present, she works with Karachi-based development NGO, Orangi Pilot Project (OPP). Her published works include translated fiction such as Harvest of Anger and Other Stories, Godavari, Reflections in a Cracked Mirror: Stories of Mariam, Alli Gujar, Baby Nagina and Others and Zindabahar Lane. She has edited and written several non-fiction books, including The Microcredit Programme of the Orangi Charitable Trust. Her debut novel Of Martyrs and Marigolds was published in 2012. At present, she is working on a book on the life and work of her sister, Perween Rahman.