Aziza Kasumov (b. 1995) is a writer and translator originally from Germany and now based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Henfield Prize. Her journalistic writing has appeared in the Financial Times, Vice, Bloomberg News, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel, and others, and her translation work was published in World Literature Today. She was a 2024 Oxbelly fellow in fiction and is presently at work on her first novel.