duluth, georgia, united states
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Claim your profileFiza Pirani is an independent journalist, writer and editor based in Atlanta, Georgia. She's also the founder of the award-winning immigrant mental health newsletter Foreign Bodies, born in 2018 from a reporting fellowship with The Carter Center. In 2024, Fiza and a team of Atlantans committed to collective liberation through literature also founded the Refaat Mobile Library, a traveling lending library named in honor of the martyred Palestinian poet and professor Dr. Refaat Alareer. Her interests in writing and journalism largely center themes of mental health and radical vulnerability, of living within manmade borders and the search for footing in an ever-changing world. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Teen Vogue, Electric Literature, Bustle, Elemental, Gizmodo, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution among several others. If you’re an editor interested in working together, please reach Fiza via email at fiza.pirani@gmail.com. Additional services can be found at fizapirani.net.






Bachelor Of Arts, Journalism, Psychology at Emory UniversityGraduated: 2014