Daniyal Mueenuddin, The 2012 Jacob Julien Visiting Writer

Daniyal Mueenuddin's first story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was 2010 winner of The Story Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and other periodicals and in Best American Short Stories 2008 (selected by Salman Rushdie) and PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2010. A graduate of Yale Law School, he practiced law in New York for a number of years. He now lives on a farm in Pakistan's southern Punjab.