Burnt Shadows

Kamila Shamsie was born on 13 August 1973 in Karachi, Pakistan, into a family of intellectuals—her mother is journalist Muneeza Shamsie and her great-aunt was writer Attia Hosain. She attended Karachi Grammar School before studying in the US, earning a BA from Hamilton College and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She moved to London in 2007 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at the Manchester Centre for New Writing. Read more →