[1] She received an MFA in Fiction from West Virginia University, where she won the late Rebecca Mason Perry Award.
Javed started writing the book when she was 17, and was the first Pakistani and, as of 2020, the youngest writer to be nominated for the award.
[citation needed] Her short story, It Will Follow You Home, was published in American Literary Review (2020).
Her second book, "What Remains After a Fire" was short-listed for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards.
[15] Javed was nominated as a Pakistan Super League's Hamaray Heroes 2023[clarification needed] and was presented with an award for her contribution in the field of Pakistani Literature at the final match.