About
Zahir Janmohamed has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, CNN, NPR, Guernica, and many other publications. In 2014, he was the inaugural recipient of the Anne Cox Chambers fellowship for long-form journalism at the MacDowell Colony. He is a three-time alumnus of the VONA workshop for writers of color, a 2017 fiction fellow at Kundiman, a 2017 AiR New Voices Scholar in audio/podcasting, and the inagural recipient of the Katherine Bakeless Fiction Scholarship at Bread Loaf. Prior to beginning his writing career, he worked in the US Congress, where he was a senior foreign policy aide, and at Amnesty International, where he was the organization's advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa.
