Dur e Aziz Amna is the author of American Fever, winner of the South Asian Book Award and the APALA Award for Literature. Her second novel, A Splintering, is a BBC Book Club pick, a winner of the Stanfords Award for Fiction, and a finalist for the Nota Bene Prize. Her work appears in the Financial Times, Al Jazeera, and The Drift, among others. She was selected as Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022 and has won the Salam Prize and the Financial Times / Bodley Head Essay Prize. She has degrees from Yale College and the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program. Born and raised in Pakistan, she currently lives in the US.