ABOUT TASNEEM

Tasneem Zehra Husain came to writing via theoretical physics. Prior to writing her popular science novel Only The Longest Threads, Tasneem received her PhD from Stockholm University - becoming Pakistan’s first female string theorist - carried out postdoctoral research at Harvard University, and was founding faculty at SBASSE, an elite school of science & engineering in her hometown, Lahore.

Tasneem has spoken at various festivals - including the Boston Book Festival, the Cambridge Science Festival, and How The Light Gets In - as well as many writers conferences and physics conferences. She has conducted science writing workshops at several institutions, including CERN.

Tasneem has been a regular columnist for 3quarksdaily. Her writing has appeared in Nautilus Magazine and New Humanist Magazine as well as several anthologies of both fiction and non-fiction.

For over a decade, Tasneem has been actively involved in science outreach, in both the US and Pakistan. She has spoken to lay audiences, conducted training workshops for K-12 teachers; taught high school students; worked with government officials, and been a mentor and avid advocate for women in science. A firm believer in the life changing power of reading, Tasneem has long volunteered for - and is currently President of - the Pakistan section of the International Board on Books for Young People.

Tasneem has been a Fellow at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth College and is a visitor at Imperial College London’s newly established Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics. She is based in Cambridge, MA where she is at work on her second book.