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Bina Shah (1972– ) is a short story writer and novelist. Though born in Karachi, she spent her first five years in the United States, where both her parents attended the University of Virginia's graduate school. She was educated in Karachi and in the United States at Wellesley College and at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has lived in Karachi since 1995, and contributes columns to www.chowk.com, Dawn, the Friday Times, and a fashion glossy, Libas.
She has published two short story collections: Animal Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Blessings (Alhamra, 2007); and three novels: Where They Dream in Blue (Alhamra, 2002), The 786 Cybercafe (Alhamra, 2004), and Slum Child (published in Spanish; Random House Mondadori, forthcoming 2009). She is a coeditor of Pakistan's new English-language literary journal, Alhamra Literary Review.
