Soniah Kamal

Soniah Kamal is the author of Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan, a postcolonial parallel retelling, which was a Financial Times Readers’ Best Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Townsend Award for Fiction, and is being adapted as a feature film. Soniah has been nominated for the Georgia Author of the Year for Literary Fiction and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Georgia Review, The Guardian, The Bitter Southerner, and more. Her essays have received critical acclaim and been shortlisted for several prizes, including Pushcart Prize nominations, and her short story “A Suitable Girl” was selected for the Best Asian Short Stories anthology. Soniah’s TEDx talk, “What Will People Say,” is about regrets and second chances. Soniah grew up in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and England and resides in the United States.