Karim Dimechkie author biography, plus links to books by Karim Dimechkie.

Karim Dimechkie

Karim Dimechkie's first novel, Lifted by the Great Nothing (Bloomsbury), was praised by NPR, the PEN/Hemingway Foundation, and Oprah.com. Karim was a Fellow of the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin, and has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, The Anderson Center for the Arts, and the UCROSS Foundation. His writing can be found in the New York Times, TheSaint Ann's Review, and Empirical Magazine's Best of Anthology. Like the protagonist of The Uproar, Karim spent over five years working in New York City's social services in Flatbush, Brooklyn while writing and acting as an MFA Thesis Advisor at Columbia University. He now lives between London and New York with his wife and son.

This biography was last updated on 06/17/2025.

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