Omer Aziz is a writer, lawyer, and former foreign policy advisor. He is the author of Brown Boy and Shadows of the Republic. He has held residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo and was most recently a Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, New York, and the New York Times, among other publications. Born to a working-class immigrant family, Aziz earned his BA with honors in politics from Queen’s University, his MPhil in international relations from the University of Cambridge, and his JD from Yale Law School.