Layla Sarahat Rushani (ca. 1952-54^[1] – July 21, 2004) was an Afghan poet. Her first name also appears as Laila.^[1]

The daughter of Sarshar Rushani, a journalist who was executed by the ruling communist party,^[1] she was born in Charikar^[2] and studied at Kabul University. Her sister died in Australia and her mother died soon afterwards. She published a number of poetry collections, consisting mainly of modern Persian poems.^[1]

Rushani left Afghanistan for the Netherlands due to the persecution of women by the Taliban. She published a literary journal in Persian, Eve in Exile, there. She died of brain cancer in 2004.^[2]