Dur e Aziz Amna is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program, where drafts of AMERICAN FEVER won the Hopwood and Busch Prizes. She won the Bodley Head / Financial Times Essay Prize and the London Magazine Short Story Competition and has been longlisted for the prestigious Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Her writing has been featured or shortlisted elsewhere, including the New York Times, Longreads, Roads & Kingdoms, and Dawn. She lives in Ann Arbor with her husband and children.