Maha is a lawyer who writes stories and makes art in her spare time, though she’s starting to think the spare time might be the real work.
She’s published short fiction in places like American Literary Review and The Bombay Review. Her stories tend to be about South Asian families dealing with everyday problems, except there are usually ghosts involved. Not scary ghosts, but more like the kind of ghosts that reorganize your kitchen cabinets or have opinions about your life choices.
Her digital art, pen and ink sketches, and acrylic pieces draw from a wide range of places: classical South Asian painters like Amrita Sher-Gil, contemporary artists like Shahzia Sikander, and illustrators like Edward Gorey, who understood that life is fundamentally weird. She’s interested in how people look when they think no one is watching, and why the most mundane moments often feel the most absurd.
She lives in Colorado with three cats and a novelist husband.