Writer · Journalist · Editor · Teacher
Taran
Khan
Award-winning author of Shadow City, offering manuscript consultation, nonfiction editing, workshops and commissioned writing.
Ways to work together
Writing made clearer, stronger and ready to meet its reader.
Manuscript consulting
Thoughtful, practical guidance for nonfiction manuscripts, from structure and voice to submission.
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Creative nonfiction, narrative journalism and life-writing teaching for writers and organisations.
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Award-winning reportage and essays on culture, conflict, migration, travel and the life of cities.
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Taran Khan is an award-winning writer and journalist. She publishes in the London Review of Books, Granta, the Guardian, Himal Southasian and Al Jazeera, among others. Her first book, Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul, won the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year and the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award. She teaches nonfiction writing at Arvon and Faber Academy, and is a mentor for South Asia Speaks, a fellowship supporting emerging writers from the region. She also works with refugees, asylum seekers and Afghan women in supporting their writing, including as a tutor with Untold Narratives and Fences & Frontiers. Taran was the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London from 2024 to 2026, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Pro Helvetia (Swiss Arts Council), the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature, and the Hugo Burge Foundation.
She grew up in Aligarh, in north India, and now lives in London.
Selected praise
“A fabulous piece of writing… I recommend it unreservedly.”
— William Dalrymple