S. K. Ali

S. K. Ali is a Canadian writer of young adult fiction. Born in South India, she moved to Canada at the age of three, studied creative writing at York University, and has worked as a teacher in Toronto.

Her debut novel Saints and Misfits, about a Muslim teenager confronting an assault by a well-regarded member of her mosque community, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award. She followed it with Love from A to Z, its sequel Love from Mecca to Medina, and Misfit in Love.

She co-wrote the picture book The Proudest Blue with the Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad and co-edited the anthology Once Upon an Eid. In 2017 she started the #MuslimShelfSpace campaign to draw attention to books by Muslim authors.