A Place for Us (Mirza) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1991
• Where—San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
• Education—B.A., University of California-Riverside; M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Currently—N/A


Fatima Farheen Mirza was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Her mother is of a British-Indian family, growing up in Birmingham, England; her father is from Hyderabad, India. Mirza did her undergradute work at the University of California-Riverside and received her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. A Place for Us is her first novel. (Adapted from the publisher.)

Read the author interview in The Guardian.