Made possible by the Drue Heinz Trust and Underwritten by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh with additional support by Chatham University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program

Mohsin Hamid is the internationally bestselling author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Discontent and its Civilizations, and Exit West. His award-winning novels have been adapted for the cinema and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker.