Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed is an American author of young adult fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, best known for her New York Times best selling novels Love, Hate & Other Filters and Internment.

Personal life

Ahmed was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in Batavia, Illinois. She has a degree from the University of Chicago, taught high school English for seven years, and worked in nonprofit before publishing her first novel in 2018.

Selected works

Her young adult debut novel Love, Hate & Other Filters, about a Muslim Indian-American teen filmmaker making plans about her future while dealing with islamophobia, debuted on #8 of the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover bestseller list and received starred reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.

Her 2019 sophomore novel Internment, set in near-future America where Muslims are sent to internment camps following a law enacted by the islamophobic president, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and debuted on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover bestseller list at #4. Internment has been described as one of the "most politically urgent reads of 2019" by Entertainment Weekly. It has also been optioned for film by Gotham Group and Chariot Entertainment prior to its release.