Bushra Rehman is a Pakistani-American novelist best known for her Lambda Literary Award-nominated[1] novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion and short story Corona.
[2] A follower of Islam, Rehman grew up in Corona,[3] Queens close to one of the first Sunni masjids in NYC.
[4] She originally began her writing career as a poet and has worked as a poetry teacher.
[5] Rehman's novel Roses in the Mouth, is loosely based on her own experience growing up in Corona, Queens in the 1980s and learning more about her own queer identity.
[6] It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in the category Bisexual Fiction.