M.Z. Adnan is a writer and freelance journalist based in London. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Rest of World, Financial Times, Wallpaper, and Hyperallergic among other publications. His long-form reporting and academic research has been supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, the John McPhee and Mallach awards at Princeton University, and the Cambridge Trust. He studied history and creative writing at Princeton, and received master’s degrees in South Asian and Middle Eastern studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford and Wolfson College, Cambridge.