BIO

Amin Ahmad was raised in India. He immigrated to the USA at the age of 17, studied at Vassar College and MIT, and worked as an architect before turning to writing. As ‘AX Ahmad’, he explored his childhood love for American crime fiction in his first two published thrillers, which feature an ex-Indian Army Captain adrift in America. His collection of short stories about immigrants won the 2020 GS Sharat Chandra Prize. Amin has taught creative writing at the Bethesda Writers Center, Story Studio Chicago, Northwestern University, and currently teaches at Duke University.

Amin’s favorite city is New York, where he can be found people-watching in Washington Square Park. He currently lives in a craftsman bungalow on a quiet street in Durham, North Carolina with his family and tabby cat, Horton. Amin has been profiled in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, praised on NPR, long listed for ‘Best American Essays’, and featured at Thrillerfest and the Brooklyn Book Festival. Most of the time, though, he is upstairs in his study, eating dark chocolate and dreaming up his next story.

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