Saher Alam is the author of the novel “The Groom To Have Been” (Spiegel & Grau).
“Alam’s voice feels very much her own, and she writes with grace and light-handed wit,” praised the Los Angeles Times. “Delicately crafted and multilayered, this moving book shows Alam to be a writer of great promise,” added Publishers Weekly.
Alam was born in Lucknow, India, in 1973 and moved to the United States in 1978. She is a graduate of Princeton University and the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. She was a fiction fellow at Emory University, and her stories have appeared in Best of the Fiction Workshops and the journal Literary Imagination. She lives in Missouri.
