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Fatima Farheen Mirza

Fatima Farheen Mirza on navigating gender roles in a Muslim family, wearing hijab and learning how to box.

Fatima Farheen Mirza

Fatima Farheen Mirza was born and raised in California and now lives in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Catapult and NYU. Her debut novel, A Place For Us, is a New York Times bestseller and is being translated into seven languages.

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