Aamina Ahmad Reading & Presentation

Join the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program in hearing a reading and presentation from Aamina Ahmad, candidate for the position of assistant professor of fiction writing. Email sutt0063@umn.edu for Zoom info.

Aamina Ahmad is the author of the novel The Return of Faraz Ali (Riverhead), which will be published April 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Southern Review, The Normal School, The Missouri Review, Ecotone, and the anthology And the World Changed. Her play The Dishonored was produced by Kali and toured the UK in 2016. She has received the Peden Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award.

Raised in London, Ahmad holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. She was Li-shen Visiting Writer at Mills College 2020-2021 and teaches creative writing and English at San Jose State University.