#3: Saladin Ahmed 2016

Episode 3 of Rewrite Radio features Saladin Ahmed’s presentation on Science Fiction and the Muslim American imagination at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. Saladin was born in Detroit and raised in a working-class, Arab American enclave in Dearborn, Michigan. His first novel, THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON, was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Crawford, Gemmell, and British Fantasy Awards, and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Saladin's short stories have been translated into a half-dozen languages and he has also written nonfiction for NPR Books, Salon, and The Escapist. He’s currently writing a new series for Marvel Comics titled BLACK BOLT due out in May 2017. He is prolific on Twitter and you can follow him @saladinahmed.

To help introduce Saladin Ahmed’s session in the podcast, is his friend and fellow 2016 Festival speaker Mallory Ortberg, author of TEXTS FROM JANE EYRE, co-founder of the defunct, but still much beloved website The Toast, and now author of Slate’s advice column Dear Prudence.