Uzma Aslam Khan is an award-winning author published worldwide. Her five novels are The Story of Noble Rot; Trespassing, nominated for a Commonwealth Prize 2003; The Geometry of God, a Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2009; Thinner Than Skin, nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize and DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and winner of the French Embassy Prize for Best Fiction at Karachi Literature Festival 2014. 

Khan’s fifth novel, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali, has won the 2023 Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction. It was a New York Times’ pick for “Best Historical Fiction 2022” and “Books for Summer 2022”; a 2022 Foreword Reviews’ INDIES finalist in historical fiction; and in Pakistan won both the Karachi Literature Festival-Getz Pharma Fiction Prize and the 9th UBL Literary Awards English Language Fiction.

Khan’s short stories include “Our Own Fantastic,” second prize recipient of Australian Book Review’s 2023 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize; “Plum Island,” winner of Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction competition 2019; and “My Mother is a Lunar Crater,” second prize recipient of Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Competition 2018. “My Mother is a Lunar Crater” was also a runner up in Calyx’s Margarita Donnelly Prize 2018. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Massachusetts Review, Australian Book Review, AGNI, Nimrod, Calyx, the Guardian UK, Counterpunch, Dawn, Herald, and other journals. 

Born and raised primarily in Pakistan, Khan has also lived in the Philippines, Japan, England and Morocco, as well as in the US—in Upstate New York, Arizona and Hawaii. Since 2012, she has made a home in western Massachusetts.