About the Author
Yasmin Adele Majeed is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the recipient of fellowships and support from the McCormack Writing Center, Kundiman, Kweli, the Periplus Collective, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Best Debut Short Stories, Narrative, American Short Fiction, Guernica, and Joyland. She is a winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa. Raised in Northern California and New York City, she currently lives in Brooklyn. Side Streams is her debut novel.
