Saher  Alam

Saher Alam

Fiction

Saher Alam is the author of the novel The Groom to Have Been, which won the 2008 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in the Best of Fiction Workshops Anthology 1999 as well as the literary journals Five Chapters and Literary Imagination, and the manuscript of her composite novel, The Amreekiad, was a finalist for the 2018 Dzanc Prize for Fiction. She has a Master of Arts (specializing in fiction) from the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, and she completed her undergraduate study at Princeton University. She has held fellowships from Emory University, the Howard Foundation (Brown University), and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. Saher has over 13 years of experience teaching fiction writing, most recently at the School of Continuing & Professional Studies at Washington University and, prior to that, at Saint Louis University. In 2020, she received the Marion Horstmann Online Teaching Innovation Grant. As an instructor, she designs experiences that emphasize the interdependent, iterative nature of reading and writing and explores how one practice feeds the other—and she cultivates workshops that aim to help writers realize their individual visions.

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