Furqan previously split her time between facilitating creative writing workshops for students across the Toronto District School Board through the non-profit Story Planet and helping to design the Lost & Found curriculum for the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation. Forever immersed in language, she has worked on sales and community outreach for trace press, an independent publisher concerned with literary translation.

Her writing has appeared in Canthius, Feels Zine, Vainqueuer, C Mag, Maisonneuve, and The Local, where she was an inaugural Journalism Fellow. Her poetry has been featured as part of an artist residency with the inPrint Collective in collaboration with the Mackenzie House museum, the Poems in Passage initiative, and the Brampton Arts Organization’s Poetry Project (2025). 

She served as Guest Curator for the 2025 Mayworks Festival of Working People & the Arts, exploring fear, bodies, work, and labour justice. Through her work as a curator, she is interested in giving language to the visceral and examining subjectivity.

Furqan earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts (HBA) from the University of Toronto and holds a Master of Arts in Child Study & Education (MA CSE) from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Certified by the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT), she remains deeply committed to liberation pedagogy.