Samira Ahmed (author)

Samira Ahmed is an American author of young adult fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, best known for her New York Times best selling novels Love, Hate & Other Filters and Internment.

Biography[]

Ahmed was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in Batavia, Illinois.^[1] She has a degree from the University of Chicago, taught high school English for seven years,^[1] and worked in nonprofit before publishing her first novel in 2018.^[2]

Her young adult debut novel Love, Hate & Other Filters, about a Muslim Indian-American teen filmmaker making plans about her future while dealing with islamophobia, debuted on #8 of the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover bestseller list^[3] and received starred reviews from Booklist,^[4] Publishers Weekly,^[5] and School Library Journal.^[6]

Her 2019 sophomore novel Internment, set in near-future America where Muslims are sent to internment camps following a law enacted by the islamophobic president, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and debuted on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover bestseller list at #4.^[7][8] Internment has been described as one of the "most politically urgent reads of 2019" by Entertainment Weekly.^[9] It has also been optioned for film by Gotham Group and Chariot Entertainment prior to its release.^[10]

Selected works[]

Comics and Graphic Novels

• Ms. Marvel (Marvel Comics, 2021)

Young Adult standalones

• Love, Hate & Other Filters (Soho Teen, 2018)
• Internment (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019)
• Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know (Soho Teen, 2020)

Stories

• Brains Don't Smell (Entropy Mag, 2016)
• Red Thread (The Fem, 2016)
• Color Outside the Lines (Soho Teen, 2019) (with stories by Adam Silvera, Anna-Marie McLemore, Sangu Mandanna, Elsie Chapman, Caroline Tung Richmond, Kelly Zekas, Tarun Shanker, Eric Smith, Lori M. Lee)
• Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2019) (with stories by Jason Reynolds, Sofia Quintero, Yamile Saied Méndez, Bethany C. Morrow)
• Vampires Never Get Old (Imprint, 2020) (with stories by Dhonielle Clayton, Zoraida Córdova, Heidi Heilig, Julie Murphy, Mark Oshiro, Rebecca Roanhorse, Laura Ruby, Victoria Schwab)
• Come On In (Inkyard Press, 2020) (with stories by Adi Alsaid, Zoraida Córdova, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Maurene Goo, Justine Larbalestier, Sona Charaipotra)
• A Universe of Wishes (Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020) (with stories by Dhonielle Clayton, Tara Sim, Natalie C. Parker, Libba Bray, Anna-Marie McLemore, Kwame Mbalia, V.E. Schwab, Rebecca Roanhorse, Nic Stone, Jenni Balch, Mark Oshiro, Samira Ahmed, Tessa Gratton, Zoraida Córdova, Tochi Onyebuchi)

Poetry

• Low Light (Claudius Speaks, 2016)
• Ink Knows No Borders (Seven Stories, 2019) (with poems by Elizabeth Acevedo, Erika L. Sánchez, Ocean Vuong, Fatimah Asghar, Chen Chen, Ada Limón, Kaveh Akbar, Hala Alyan, Safia Elhillo, and Bao Phi)

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