Sorayya Khan is the author of three novels, City of Spies (2015), Five Queen's Road (2009), and Noor (2003). Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Journal of Narrative Politics, among others. She is the recipient of a Fulbright award and Malahat Review Novella Prize, and City of Spies was the 2015 winner of the Best International Fiction Book at the Sharjah Book Fair. She is the daughter of a Pakistani father and Dutch mother, was born in Austria, grew up in Pakistan, and now lives in the US.