Soniah Kamal is an award-winning novelist, essayist, public speaker. Her novel, Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan, a postcolonial parallel retelling writing back to Empire, is hailed as ‘the gold standard  for Pride and Prejudice adaptations’, is featured on PBS Books, Publishers Weekly hails it a ‘must read’, Shelf Awareness has said that ‘ If Jane Austen lived in modern-day Pakistan, this is the version of Pride and Prejudice she might have written‘, a Financial Times Readers’ Best Book, a New York Public Library, NPR Code Switch and Library Reads picks and a forthcoming feature film.  Soniah’s work has appeared in critically acclaimed anthologies and publications including The New York Times, Georgia Review, The Guardian, The Bitter Southerner, TEDx stage (What Will People Say?) and more. Soniah’s essays are shortlisted for Prizes and her short story “A Suitable Girl” was selected for the Best Asian Short Stories Anthology. Soniah received the Paul Bowles Fiction Fellow at Georgia State University where she earned an MFA in Creative Writing and was the recipient of a Susan B. Irene Award from St. Johns College where she received a B.A. in Philosophy. She has taught creative writing at Emory University, Oglethorpe University and Reinhardt University. Soniah grew up in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and England, and resides in the United States.