Samina Ali

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Samina Ali is an Indian-American author. Her debut novel was Madras on a Rainy Day.

Samina Ali was born in Hyderabad, India and emigrated with her parents to America when she was six months old. Growing up, she spent half of each year in India, where she also attended school. In 1993, she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with a B.A. in English. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon.

Currently she lives in San Francisco with her son and is working on her second novel.