Unsolaced Faces We Meet in Our Dreams (Weavers Press, 2024)
”I’ve not read anything quite like “Unsolaced Faces,” with its scent of unrequited love, its flavor of deceit. In dense poetic language, Moazzam Sheikh explores possession and madness inherent in the pursuit of love, when ardor turns to anger, and devotion leads to desertion. This odyssey exploring sticky love and intellectual fulfillment in bohemian San Francisco will both seduce and confound you.” — William Torphy, author of Motel Stories
Available via Weavers Press at: http://weaverspress.com
A Footbridge to Hell Called Love (Weavers Press, 2023)
“Witty and wise, Sheikh’s novel follows the amorous adventures of Aslam Rana, adrift between women and literary rivalries in San Francisco—a comic yet probing tale of contemporary mores and the ultimate quest for connection.” —Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen
Available via Weavers Press at: http://weaverspress.com
Cafe Le Whore and Other Stories (Weavers Press, 2013)
“The places, the events and the people can’t be separated — and you bring all three to life — and sorrow-compassion act like a thread that weaves them together. Bravo!” – Roshni Rustomji-Kerns
“A potpourri of irreverent, logic-defying, quirky, and melancholic short stories, the book should have been more widely available all over the world.” – Saeed ur Rehman
Available via Weavers Press at: https://weaverspress.com/bookshop/
The Idol Lover and Other Stories of Pakistan (Ithuriel’s Spear, 2008)
“Sheikh maps the ways in which South Asian identities cohere and threaten to disintegrate at the contradictory intersections of memory, desire, connection, and exploitation.” – Arnab Chakladar
“… the title story and “Gypsy Leaves” provide us with an engaging voice of a daring new writer.” – David Lincoln
Available from SPD: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780979339011/the-idol-lover-and-other-stories-of-pakistan.aspx
Other Short Stories in Print and Online
Chicago Quarterly Review (various issues)
The South Asian American issue (Special issue of Chicago Quarterly Review)
The Best Asian Short Stories (Kitab International, 2020)
A Letter from India : Contemporary Short Stories from Pakistan (Penguin India, 2004)
Leaving Home: Towards a New Millennium (Oxford University Press, 2002)
A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Living in American: Poetry and fiction by South Asian American authors (Westview Press, 1995)
Stories published online:
“Do not go!” in Borderless Journal
“Informal Grief” in The Nonconformist
“Amelie” in The Nonconformist
“When Man Sleeps” in Weber – The Contemporary West
“Mr. Samuel Washington is Ready” in Weber – The Contemporary West (see page 119 of issue)
“Sunshine” in The Best Asian Short Stories (Kitab International)
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