Zak Salih is the author of the novel Let's Get Back to the Party, recommended as a must-read book in 2021 by O, the Oprah Magazine; BuzzFeed; Cosmopolitan; The Millions; Electric Literature; Vanity Fair; The Advocate; Harper's Bazaar; Kirkus Reviews; Lambda Literary; and other publications. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Fairy Tale Review, Foglifter, Epiphany, The Florida Review, The Millions, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is the winner of a 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, and lives in Washington, D.C.