Mir Arif is a Bangladeshi author living in Ohio. His recent 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 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 Magazine, and worked as a copyeditor for The Believer.

He is currently at work on his first novel, “Soar,” and is represented by Ismita Hussain at Great Dog Literary.