Bina Shah

**Bina Shah** is a regular contributor to the international *New York Times* and is a frequent guest on the BBC. She has contributed essays to *Granta*, the *Independent*, and the *Guardian*. She holds degrees from Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is an alumna of the University of Iowa’s International Writers Workshop. Her novel *Slum Child* was a bestseller in Italy, and she has been published in English, Spanish, German and Italian. She lives in Karachi.