About the Author
Yasmin Adele Majeed has received fellowships and support from McCormack Writing Center, Kundiman, Kweli, the Periplus Collective, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She is a winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and the American Short(er) Fiction Prize (Karen Russell). Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2025 (Celeste Ng), Best Debut Short Stories 2022, Narrative, Guernica, and Joyland. A graduate of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she was previously an editor at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, during which the team won a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. Side Streams is her debut novel. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
