Dur e Aziz Amna is the author of the novel American Fever, winner of the SABA Book Award and the APALA Award for Literature, as well as the forthcoming novel, A Splintering. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Aljazeera, Financial Times, and others, and has won the Salam Award and the Financial Times Essay Prize. She is a graduate of Yale College and the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan.