Mir Arif is a writer based in Ohio. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, The Bangalore Review, Arts & Letters, Himal Southasian, and elsewhere. One of his short stories is forthcoming in Story. His short story, “Adrift,” was longlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He obtained his MFA in fiction from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV), held the position of nonfiction editor at Witness, and worked as a copyeditor for The Believer.

A Granta Writers’ Workshop alumnus, he is at work on his first novel, “Cleavers.” He is represented by Ismita Hussain at Great Dog Literary.