Sorayya Khan & Laura McNeal
Sorayya Khan is the author of We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir, and the novels Noor, Five Queen’s Road, and City of Spies, which received the Best International Fiction Book Award, Sharjah International Book Fair. Her latest work can be read in Lit Hub, Guernica, Longreads, The Rumpus, Oldster, and Journal of Narrative Politics. She is the recipient of various grants, most recently from the American Institute of Indonesian Studies to support her current writing project. The daughter of a Pakistani father and a Dutch mother, she was born in Europe, grew up in Pakistan, and now lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is currently a Visiting Critic at Cornell University. Find her at www.sorayyakhan.com.
Laura McNeal was a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature for her novel, Dark Water. She is the author of the historical novel The Practice House, set in Kansas and California in the 1930s, and The Incident on the Bridge, set in her hometown of Coronado, California. With her husband, the novelist Tom McNeal, she is the author of four critically-acclaimed novels published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. She holds an MA in creative writing from Syracuse University, and while doing research for her novel about Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, The Swan’s Nest, she was awarded two residencies at Baylor University.
