Jamil Jan Kochai

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Jamil Jan Kochai was born in Peshawar, Pakistan in 1992, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. He is a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his novel, 99 Nights in Logar, is forthcoming with Viking Books. His work has been published in Ploughshares, A Public Space, and is forthcoming in The O'Henry Prize Stories 2018.​

Prize anthology mentions

O Henry Prize Stories 2018

Best American Short Stories 2021

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