Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 13, 2026
Mehreen Ahmed

Mehreen Ahmed

Mehreen Ahmed is internationally published, and critically acclaimed.

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About Mehreen Ahmed

Mehreen Ahmed is internationally published, and critically acclaimed.

Her book, The Pacifist, is the announced Drunken Druid: The Editors' Choice for June 2018, and voted as Best Recent Book by The Voice of Literature and her novel, Jacaranda Blues,is acclaimed as "The Best of Novels for 2017 - Family Novels of the Year" by Novel Writing Festival.

Books by Mehreen Ahmed

Short

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  • The Buraq

    Paradox and mystery, future and past -- all unknowable and yet so close...

  • The Power of Picture

    What is it that takes us from suspicion to curiosity...?

  • Boots for Kings
  • Dappled Lights

    Prayer is a beating heart, with emotion and dance to lift it...

  • The Perfumer

    The sweetest scents are compassion and wisdom...

Essay

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  • The Turning

    Mehreen Ahmed is internationally published, and critically acclaimed by The Midwest Book Review; The Voice of Literature; and Novel Writing Festival.

  • The Custom of Veil, Unveiled

    Those who forget their history are doomed to make mistakes in the present...