[4] She is a creative writing professor at the University of Minnesota[5] and the winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award.
[10] She later moved to the United States to attend the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she studied fiction and graduated in 2013.
[10] As a playwright, she participated in development programs including with the UK Film Council and the Royal Court Theatre[13] and her first full-length play The Dishonoured won a Screencraft Stage Play Award[14] and was nominated for an Off-West End Award.
[15] The 2016 play is a thriller about murder, espionage, and politics,[16] which The Guardian rated three out of five stars in a review that criticized the director and the staging's transitions.
In the novel, the titular character Faraz Ali returns to his hometown in Pakistan to help cover up a girl's death.