is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Her fiction has been published in the Hawaii Women’s Journal, Frontier Psychiatrist, Day One, and The Hopkins Review. You can read her non-fiction at Buzzfeed, American Short Fiction, and Salon.

Khaliah has over twenty years of experience in college admissions and counseling serving students in public and independent schools throughout her career.

She lives in Baltimore with her husband and two very decorative cats, where she is hard at work on a novel about the intersection of class, race, college admissions, and independent schools.