About the Author
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Ausma Zehanat Khan is the author of Blood Betrayal, the second installment of the Blackwater Falls crime series published by Minotaur Books. Books in this series have received rave reviews from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Daily, and Booklist among others, and Publishers Weekly named it one of the Best Crime Novels of 2022. Blackwater Falls was a 2023 Nero Awards Finalist. Blood Betrayal, her follow-up novel, won the Colorado Book Award for Mystery in 2024, and was a Finalist for the WILLA Literary Award for Multiform Fiction.
Khan is also the author of The Unquiet Dead, published by St. Martin's Press. Her debut novel was the winner of the Barry Award, the Arthur Ellis Award and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Novel, as well as a 2016 Macavity Award finalist. CrimeReads named Khan one of the Rising Stars of Crime Fiction in the 2010s, and both CrimeReads and Library Journal named A Deadly Divide one of the best crime novels of 2019. Both of Khan's crime series have been optioned for television. |
Khan has been featured in a Shondaland profile of Muslim Women Authors Everyone Should Know, and as Ms. Chatelaine in Chatelaine magazine. Most recently, she was profiled on Public Radio International. She frequently appears on CBC Radio, and has been interviewed by the BBC World Service and BBC Radio Woman's Hour, as well as appearing on CTV Your Morning, CBS, and The Agenda. Khan was the Editor in Chief of Muslim Girl Magazine. She is also the founder of the Muslim Writers Index.
The Bloodprint, Ausma Zehanat Khan's fantasy debut, was hailed as "one of the year's finest fantasy debuts". Published by Harper Voyager US & UK, The Bloodprint is Book One of The Khorasan Archives, a four-book epic fantasy series, that was followed by The Black Khan in October 2018, and The Blue Eye in 2019. In 2019, Khan was a Sirens Guest of Honor. The Bladebone, the epic conclusion of The Khorasan Archives was published in 2020.
Khan's non-fiction book, Ramadan, for middle-grade students, was published by Orca Books as part of the Origins series in Spring 2018. It was selected as a Children's Book Council Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2019, and as the Children's Literature Roundtable of Canada's 2019 Information Book Award Honour Book. Ramadan was also nominated for a Hackmatack Children's Choice Award.
Khan's nonfiction essay, "Origins and Destinations", was published by Seal Press in the crime writers' anthology, Private Investigations, edited by Victoria Zackheim, in 2020. "The Once and Future Qadi" was published in the Sword Stone Table fantasy anthology, and "The Yellow Line", an Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty crime story was published in The Perfect Crime, a new BAME anthology. Khan also has a forthcoming contribution in the new anthology, A Thousand Nights.
A frequent lecturer and commentator, Khan holds a Ph.D. in international human rights law with a research specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She also holds an LL.M., an LL.B., and a B.A. Honors.
Khan practiced immigration law in Toronto and has taught international human rights law at Northwestern University, as well as human rights and business law at York University. She is a long-time community activist and writer, and currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband where she is working on the third Blackwater Falls crime novel.
The Bloodprint, Ausma Zehanat Khan's fantasy debut, was hailed as "one of the year's finest fantasy debuts". Published by Harper Voyager US & UK, The Bloodprint is Book One of The Khorasan Archives, a four-book epic fantasy series, that was followed by The Black Khan in October 2018, and The Blue Eye in 2019. In 2019, Khan was a Sirens Guest of Honor. The Bladebone, the epic conclusion of The Khorasan Archives was published in 2020.
Khan's non-fiction book, Ramadan, for middle-grade students, was published by Orca Books as part of the Origins series in Spring 2018. It was selected as a Children's Book Council Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2019, and as the Children's Literature Roundtable of Canada's 2019 Information Book Award Honour Book. Ramadan was also nominated for a Hackmatack Children's Choice Award.
Khan's nonfiction essay, "Origins and Destinations", was published by Seal Press in the crime writers' anthology, Private Investigations, edited by Victoria Zackheim, in 2020. "The Once and Future Qadi" was published in the Sword Stone Table fantasy anthology, and "The Yellow Line", an Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty crime story was published in The Perfect Crime, a new BAME anthology. Khan also has a forthcoming contribution in the new anthology, A Thousand Nights.
A frequent lecturer and commentator, Khan holds a Ph.D. in international human rights law with a research specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She also holds an LL.M., an LL.B., and a B.A. Honors.
Khan practiced immigration law in Toronto and has taught international human rights law at Northwestern University, as well as human rights and business law at York University. She is a long-time community activist and writer, and currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband where she is working on the third Blackwater Falls crime novel.