Wasima Khan is a Pakistani-Dutch writer and poet. She is the winner of the 2025 Willow Springs Surrealist Poetry Prize and the 2026 Blue Frog Flash Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in over a dozen U.S. literary journals, such as About Place Journal, Fourteen Hills, Redivider, Sky Island Journal, Santa Fe Literary Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review, and The Good Life Review, and has been nominated for Best New Poets 2026.

She has won first prizes in four essay competitions organized by the Global Peter Drucker Forum, the Netherlands Helsinki Committee, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Dutch Advisory Board on Regulatory Burden, and second prize in the 2025 Amartya Sen Essay Prize Competition co-organized by Global Financial Integrity, Academics Stand Against Poverty and Yale’s Global Justice Program.

Her journalism has appeared in Dutch newspapers Trouw and de Volkskrant, as well as on the investigative platform Follow the Money. Previously, Wasima authored a law dictionary and worked as a law lecturer and legislative lawyer. She holds LL.M. degrees in Tax Law and Financial Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam.