Faculty Spotlight

Aamina Ahmad

Fiction workshop

Aamina Ahmad has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award. Her short fiction has been widely published, and she is the author of a play, The Dishonored. Her first novel, The Return of Faraz Ali, was published by Riverhead and was an NYT Editor’s Choice pick and a finalist for the New American Voice Award. She lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota.