Madiha Sattar grew up in Karachi, is now based in Dubai, and has lived in New York City and Cambridge, MA, where she studied history and literature at Harvard College. Her fiction is forthcoming in Glimmer Train and has appeared in the Kenyon Review. As a journalist she covered politics, violent extremism, and US foreign policy in South Asia, and her writing appeared in The Economist, Foreign Policy online, The Caravan, and elsewhere.