Zakiya Cowan is a writer from Chicago, Illinois. Her work has appeared in Four Way Review, the Chicago Reader, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere.

She has received support from the Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop, the 2023 Tin House Winter Online Workshop, and the 2023 Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat through the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. Cowan is a 2020 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship recipient, a Best of the Net nominee, and a Best Small Fictions nominee.