After earn­ing a bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA, Jas­min Attia spent over fif­teen years work­ing for for­tune 500 com­pa­nies in the worlds of finance and tech­nol­o­gy. Despite her inter­est in her day job, sto­ry writ­ing became her night job. In 2021 she grad­u­at­ed with her MFA in cre­ative writ­ing from Ben­ning­ton Col­lege. Her debut nov­el, The Oud Play­er of Cairo, has won the Nicholas Schaffn­er Award for music in lit­er­a­ture. Her non­fic­tion work has also appeared in The Writer’s Chron­i­cle (Sept 2022 issue). Jas­min lives with her hus­band and two chil­dren in Palm Beach Gar­dens, Florida.