Fatima Ijaz was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She studied Liberal Arts at Hartwick College, New York (USA), finished her undergrad degree in English from York University (Canada) and later her Masters in English Linguistics from Eastern Michigan University. She won first prize at the Mclaughlin Poetry Contest in Toronto (2007). She returned to the city of her birth eventually, where she further studied English Literature at Karachi University and now teaches English and Speech at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi. She is also a contributing editor for an online literary magazine called The Pandemonium Journal;. She has been a reader at the Karachi Literature Festival (2020, 2021). Her work has been published in numerous publications including The Aleph Review, Ideas and Futures and The Bombay Review.