N.S. Ahmed
N.S. Ahmed is an Egyptian-American writer based in New York City. His writings have been featured or are forthcoming in publications such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, Adroit Journal, Joyland, Waxwing, The Margins (AAWW), and The Offing. Currently, he is a CUNY Pipeline Fellow, a CLS Scholar, a TEDx speaker, a Periplus Collective Fellow, a Shenandoah Editorial Fellow, and a recent graduate and Hertog Research Fellow at Hunter College's MFA program for creative fiction. He is presently working on a novel and short story collection.
Reading List
Stories Scanned Through the Metal Detector: In Defense of Troublesome Fiction
You’re an editor now, correct?” they asked me. “I am, yes,” I responded. “Then you must respond to the stories of the world beyond the West,” they said. “Or else the West will have succeeded in claiming you among their perfect idiots and cowards.”