Hima F. Raza was a poet, critic, and academic. She was born and brought up in Lahore and graduated from Kinnaird College, Lahore. Abroad she earned degrees from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the University of Sussex, UK. Raza taught English literature and creative writing at universities in Lahore and London. She published two collections of experimental poetry: "Memory Stains" and "Left-Hand Speak". One of her short stories was also included in an anthology of Pakistani women authors' writing, "And the World Changed". (Adapted from the author's bio at The Feminist Press. http://www.feministpress.org/books/hi...)
Hima Raza died in a car accident at the age of 27.