Fatima Farheen Mirza Ahmed (born April 10, 1991) is an American novelist best known for her novel A Place for Us (2018),[1] which was a New York Times Best Seller.

[5] Mirza attended the University of California, Riverside, where she pursued medical studies at first but made a career shift to creative writing as an undergraduate.

[18] She has been a guest on a number of podcasts celebrating her writing career such as Riff Raff,[19] Books with Jen,[20] Shalwar Kameez Dreams[21] and Bridge India’s Voices.

[22] Mirza was nominated by author Tommy Orange as an honoree for the National Book Award Foundation's 5 under 35.

[23] Mirza married British actor Riz Ahmed in 2020 after meeting at a coffee shop in Brooklyn in 2018.