I’m a novelist and writer born in England to a Pakistani father and an English mother.  I teach on the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College London, and previously I taught at Queen Mary University London.  I have an MFA in film production from New York University, where I was a Harkness Fellow after graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature.  My debut novel, A Small Fortune, is published by Riverhead (USA), Quercus (UK), and Editions Bourgois (France). It was a runner up for the Readers’ Prize at the the Cognac Literature Festival in 2015, and was awarded the Perveen Shakir Fiction prize in Pakistan after its launch at the Lahore Literature Festival in 2014. My current work in progress, Tokyo Time, One Hundred and Sixty Three Entries, is a short hybrid memoir based around photographs taken during the pandemic in Japan.  In 2023 the project was granted funding from the Society of Authors and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation for research, writing and development. 
 
My short fiction has been published by Picador India, Dahlia Books, Dear Damsels, Spitalfields Life and elsewhere, and I have also written screenplays and a stage play that was performed at the Arcola Theatre’s PlayWrought Festival in London. 
 
My nonfiction writing has appeared in Weekend FT, New York Times Magazine, Prospect, and elsewhere,  and I have written and presented for BBC Radio.

You can find me on Instagram @rosiedastgir