Mariya Karimjee is a freelance writer who lives in Karachi, Pakistan and who is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She’s reported on Pakistan's first democratic transfer of power, day laborers at a ship breaking yard in Balochistan, and the growing rates of infanticide in Pakistan. She's also written about her experience as a victim of FGM/C and growing up Muslim in Texas. She is a contributor on NPR’s This American Life, and her work has appeared in Marie Claire Magazine, BuzzFeed, VICE, and Al Jazeera America.
Karimjee graduated with a MS in Magazine Journalism from Columbia University and earned her BA from Mount Holyoke College. She was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute of Global Good, and was the inaugural mid-career resident at This American Life. She is a former GlobalPost/Kaiser Family Foundation Global Health reporting fellow and was a writer in residence at Hedgebrook where she was a recipient of the 2015 Elizabeth George Award.