Anisah Khan is a Pakistani-American writer, researcher, and artist born in Houston and raised in Spring, TX. She is a rising senior majoring in English while pursuing minors in Psychology and the interdisciplinary program Law, Values, and Policy.

 

In Spring of 2022, Anisah joined the Year 1771 project as an English Intern as a rising Sophomore. She gathered and analyzed authors studied in the 1771 project to curate author personographies. As the project progressed, Anisah was selected to become a member of the inaugural cohort 2024 Summer Internship of Public History and Digital Humanities. She led her team, had the responsibility to accurately input files into the Master One Drive as File Manager, created the Master List of Altered Words which derived from her personal document, and directed the website building process as Lead Website Editor.

 

At Glass Mountain, Anisah serves as Managing Editor and Associate Poetry Editor. Her piece, Narrating the Spectrum, was selected as the 2023 Non-Fiction winner in The Alexandra L. Rowan Memorial Foundation Writing Competition. And, as a Rowan Scholar, Anisah will be curating an exhibition at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center Blaffer Art Museum--examining shifts in dilated time, ritual, memory-keeping, and community-building practices to reflect on the role of art as urgent responses to the global pandemic.

 

In Fall 2024, Anisah will be an incoming student at The Hobby School of Public Affairs’ Civic Houston Internship Program engaging in Public Policy. Anisah will also be an incoming Frameworks Fellow and working on her Senior Thesis. Her research interests lie in South Asian Literature, Cognitive Psychology, and Education. In her free time, Anisah likes to explore local literary events in Houston and create acrylic paintings.