Sumayya Usmani is a Pakistani author living in Glasgow. She is a Scottish Book Trust Next Chapter Awardee (2021) and the award winning author of two cookbooks and one memoir. Sumayya is currently finishing a MLitt in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow followed by the DFA Creative Writing starting October 2024. Sumayya also mentors writers and runs an online writer’s membership community called Qissa. Her literary interests include culinary displacement, nostalgia and the erasure of belonging through colonisation and the Partition of India.