Ali Eteraz is an inhabitant of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. His fiction has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Crossborder, and Forge Journal, among others. Children of Dust (HarperCollins USA), his darkly-comic memoir about coming-of-age as a conflicted Muslim, was a New Statesman Book of the Year, won the Nautilus Book Award Gold, and was featured by PBS, NPR, and the CBC. Eteraz grew up in the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the American South.