Jamil Jan Kochai was born in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. He was a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his novel, 99 Nights in Logar, is forthcoming with Viking Books. His fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Sewanee Review, Ploughshares, A Public Space, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018.