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Uzma Aslam Khan (1969– ), a novelist, was born in Lahore, grew up in Karachi, and was educated at St. Joseph's College and St. Patrick's School. She earned degrees in the United States from Hobart and William Smith College and the University of Arizona. She has lived in Lahore since 1998 with her American husband, the novelist David Maine. She has taught literature and creative writing at the Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, and at The University of Arizona in Tucson, and has been a distinguished visiting writer at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in Honolulu.
Khan is the author of The Story of Noble Rot (Penguin Books India, 2001), and Trespassing (Penguin Books India, 2003), which was short listed for a Commonwealth Prize and tells of a brutal murder during Karachi's ethnic violence in the 1990s. Her third novel, published in 2008, is entitled, The Geometry of God (Rupa). Her books have been translated into several languages, and she has written articles for various newspapers and journals worldwide, including Drawbridge, Counterpunch, and Dawn.
