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 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.