Aamina Ahmad
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Aamina Ahmad has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Southern Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere; in addition to her novel The Return of Faraz Ali, she is also the author of a play, The Dishonored. She lives in Berkeley, California.