In the monthly column, ‘The Facts of Fiction” award-winning author Soniah Kamal will discuss the art and craft of writing fiction as well as the ins and outs of the writer’s life both on the page and off the page. Click here to read Soniah’s blog posts.
Soniah Kamal is an award-winning novelist, essayist and public speaker. She gave a TEDx talk on redefining dreams and is a frequent speaker on writing, post-colonialism, parenting, Jane Austen, immigrant life and real American Dreams. Her work has appeared in critically acclaimed anthologies and publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, Catapult, The Georgia Review, The Bitter Southerner, VIDA, The Normal School, The Missing Slate, Pithead Chapel and more. Soniah’s novel, Unmarriageable: Pride & Prejudice in Pakistan is a 2019 Financial Times Readers’ Best Book Pick, a People’s Magazine Pick, an NPR Code Switch Reads Pick, a 2020 Georgia Author of the Year for Literary Fiction nominee, and more. Her debut novel An Isolated Incident was shortlisted for the Townsend Prize. She has taught creative writing at Emory University, Oglethorpe University and teaches at the MFA program at Reinhardt University. She is on Twitter & Instagram @soniahkamal.
