Mir Arif is a writer based in Ohio. A Granta Writers’ Workshop alumnus, his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines such as Story, Tahoma Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, SUSPECT, The Bangalore Review, Arts & Letters, and Himal Southasian. His short stories were longlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and named a semi-finalist for the 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Prize. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) and a BA in International Relations from the University of Dhaka. He was the nonfiction editor at Witness and worked as a copyeditor for The Believer. Cleavers is his first novel.