Nwa Rizvi

Co Editor-in-Chief

Nwa Rizvi (she/her) (Syed Nwa Abas Rizvi, Nwa Abbas, and Nwa A. Rizvi) is a highly compartmentalised being who is an educator for special needs, sustainable development, and multilingualism. She is daughter to a poetess and a man who gave up being an artist due to societal pressure, a sister to an artist and activist, and she has mixed up the passion from all to create a perfectly chaotic and never-ending supply of energising angst. She is a short story writer and aspiring novelist who has been published both at home and abroad. Kittens, puppies, and hyper independent parrots follow her home. She is hearing impaired and doesn’t like crowds.

Nwa looks at the world around herself and her mind churns up narratives using the people and places she sees. She doesn’t know how it happens. She only hopes she can keep up with the speed with which the voices in her mind demand to be heard.

Kristia Vasiloff

Co Editor-in-Chief

Kristia Vasiloff (she/her) is a poet, avid-reader of everything, activist, and homebody. She has been published in presses, anthologies, and her writing has been supported by her state’s Poetry Society. Kristia’s power chair is named Batmobile 2.0, after the late Batmobile power-scooter of her younger years. She writes because she needs it, she writes for folks who also yearn for a home outside their body. Kristia is living her best queer life with her amazing Spouse and two cats in North Carolina, USA.

She is extremely humbled to be passed the torch for The Missing Slate as an Editor in Chief. She is giddy for upcoming projects for the magazine and its readers, submitters, and new-comers. Kristia is honored to continue to share The Missing Slate Magazine, a needed space designed to amplify the voices of marginalized writers, with y’all.

Taqdees Mela

Nonfiction Editor

Taqdees Mahmood Mela (she/her) is an award-winning writer and academic, who fights the dark forces of patriarchy and classism one story at a time. She is a K-drama/Anime enthusiast and is obsessed with the intricacies of language. She was working as an Assistant Editor for Daily Times, Pakistan, and Clamantis – the MALS journal at Dartmouth College. Her work has been published by Folio Books, Clamantis, and Daily Times, Pakistan.

Rameen Saad

Essay Editor

Rameen (she/her) is a writer and researcher from the city by the sea, Karachi. After graduating from the University of Chicago with an MA in Comparative Literature, she has focused on the intersection between the Global South and post-colonization. Her work centers on the female body and the gravity of choice, as well as explorations on grief and memory. Beyond her research, she enjoys cooking for her friends, yoga in the sun, and absurdist theater. Her reasons to wake up are movies that make you cry, crab rangoons, and the warmth of the people she loves. Her favorite novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, is the sole reason she is currently based in Chicago.

Jabeen Qadri

Flash Fiction / Prose Editor

Jabeen Qadri (she/her) is an artist, writer, zine-maker, a tarot reader and daydreamer—hopelessly enchanted by the world of folklore, mysticism, the surreal, the macabre and magick. Born and raised in the port city Karachi, she finished her MA in Art and Design Studies earlier this year from BNU, Lahore and currently procrastinating a Ph.D. She is a Capricorn sun and Libra moon, loves a cup of bittersweet coffee (even though it gives her anxiety) and misses the salty sea breeze when she’s away from home.

Saniya Khalil

Art Editor

Saniya (she/her) is a medical student fighting hard to keep her literary and creative spirit alive and fluttering in her academic life. She runs her own poetry page amidst writing for different journals and magazines.

Ever since she was little, libraries were her favourite place to be. She loved the magic of translating thoughts into words or images. Her poetry, be it prose-form-poems, shape poems, blackout poems, revolve around expressing and understanding emotion, life, and art.

Maryam Shakeel

Managing Editor

Maryam Shakeel (she/her) is a writer, researcher, and an obsessive enthusiast of literature, film, art, and theatre based in Lahore. She was born in Quetta and believes her heart and soul belong to the ethereal mountains of her hometown. She always imagines herself in a garden of flowers where she lives and loves fearlessly. Maryam thrives on investigating the politics, taboos, and undiscovered phenomena surrounding sex and sexuality. Her most recent research, her baby, is called “Consummation of Marriage; Discovering the Etched, Wretched, and the Liberated (A Case Study of Pashtun
Women).” Her passion for writing is driven by rage because once a teacher told her, “You cannot write, so better leave it”.
With a diverse background in research and writing, she is hyper-focused on engaging with marginalized communities and amplifying their voices. She is a published author in Dawn, The Scoop, Roznama Jeddojehad, and has been associated with the left-wing magazine, The Student’s Herald. Maryam currently manages Music Distribution and Digital Marketing at Dot Republic Media.

Khadija Hassan (she/her)

Previous Flash Fiction/Prose Section Editor – Issue 18

Maham Khan (she/her)

Editor – Issue 15, 16, 17

Zahra Hamdulay (she/her)

Editor – Issue 15, 16, 17

Orooj-e-Zafar (they/them)

Editor – Issue 15, 16, 17

Maryam Piracha (she/her)
Founder of The Missing Slate Magazine

Founder and Editor in Chief of The Missing Slate and Editor in Chief from 2010 to 2023.