Rizwan Akhtar’s debut collection of poems, Lahore, I Am Coming (2017), is published by Punjab University Press.He has published poems in well-established poetry magazines of the UK, US, India, Canada, and New Zealand. He was a part of the workshop on poetry with Derek Walcott at the University of Essex in 2010.

Rizwan Akhtar's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.