Fowzia Karimi

Fowzia Karimi is an Afghan-American writer and illustrator who was born in Kabul and moved to the United States in 1980. She lives in Denton, Texas. Her illustrated debut novel, Above Us the Milky Way, came out in 2020 from Deep Vellum. She has also illustrated several books by other authors, and she won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Karimi contributed an essay to World Literature Today's January 2022 issue, recalling her 1980 departure from Afghanistan and a 2015 visit to Kabul.