Sima Qadeer

Sima Qadeer is a Toronto-based author whose fiction explores identity, belonging, and empowerment. Her debut short story collection, Brown Girls, Grown Up, is forthcoming from Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press.

Balancing humor with heartache, her stories trace the shifting terrain of adulthood—intimacy and aging, motherhood, faith, heritage, and the ongoing work of becoming.

She lives in Toronto with her husband, their two children, and three cats.