A public reading by Jamil Jan Kochai, the author of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award and a winner of the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize and the 2023 Clark Fiction Prize. His debut novel 99 Nights in Logarwas a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He teaches creative writing at California State University, Sacramento.