Afreen Akhtar is a writer and a multi-disciplinary artist based in Delhi, India. Her work deals with subjects like identity, gender, marginalization, communal violence, and the rewriting of history. Her work has appeared in TEDx Gateway, The Wire, Vogue India, The Queer Muslim Project, Conflictorium Raipur, Transmitterance Radio Festival etc. She is the recipient of Prince Claus Seed Awards 2023. In 2021, she was one of the four artists selected for The Transmitterance Fellowship by Drishti Media where she created radio/sound art for a community radio, Radio Nazariya.