Aamina Ahmad’s first novel, The Return of Faraz Ali, was named a notable New York Times and NPR pick for 2022 and went on to win the Art Siedenbaum Los Angeles Times First Book prize, The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain First Book prize, and the Gordon Bowker Volcano prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has been a recipient of a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, a Pushcart Prize, and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award. She has a story collection forthcoming, which will be published by Riverhead in 2026. She is also the author of a play, The Dishonored. She was born and raised in London, England, and she now teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota.