Amin Ahmad was raised in India, educated at Vassar College and MIT, and worked as an international architect for many years. Today, he lives in Durham, NC with his wife and daughter and teaches creative writing at Duke University.
Early in his writing career, Amin published two noir genre novels under the pen name “AX Ahmad” (Minotaur/HarperCollins India 2013, 2014) The Caretaker and The Last Taxi Ride. The Last Taxi Ride was named one of NPR’s ‘Best books of 2015’, chosen for Entertainment Weekly’s ‘Summer Thrills and Chills’, and favorably reviewed on ‘Fresh Air’. He is also the winner of the 2020 G S Chandra Prize for fiction.