2026 PEN/Faulkner Award Longlist
Small Scale Sinners
Mahreen Sohail has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied as a Fulbright scholar. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Granta, Pushcart Prize Anthology (XLII), A Public Space, and elsewhere. She was previously a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (UK), and is a recipient of fellowships from Yaddo and Hedgebrook. Her debut short story collection Small Scale Sinners was published by A Public Space in September 2025.