Maryam Malik is a poet, astrophile, and academic from Karachi, Pakistan, pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she currently serves as a Teaching Associate. She has taught literature and composition at the university level and spent eight years at Habib University’s Writing Center, where she developed student-centered workshops, fostered camaraderie through one-on-one consultations, and created academic support resources.  
 
A recipient of the 2024 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship and a poet of memory and place, Maryam’s work is rooted in questions of displacement, maternal lineage, and the quiet weight of cultural inheritance. Her poems and essays appear in Arzu Anthology (Volumes 3–5) and Zau Literary Periodical. She is also interested in how digital and multimodal platforms can expand both poetic form and pedagogical practice.