Jawad AliJawad Ali was born in Karachi, Pakistan, before it became the political cauldron that it is today and before religion and politics became the guiding lights of Pakistani politics. After finishing his 'O' and 'A' levels at a school where his friends were Muslims, Hindus, Parsis, Christians and freethinkers of all colors, he came to the US where he glided between UCLA and UCI until finally receiving from the latter a BS in Physics and an honorary BA in Comparative Literature (officially it was a minor in Comparative Literature and Philosophy). After graduation, he worked as an editorial assistant at Sun & Moon Press—now Green Integer—where he had the near miraculous experience to help edit the works of writers, poets, playwrights and other such fools who persevere in writing for the 500 serious readers of fiction and poetry as researched by one Philip Roth. After publishing poems, essays and stories in publications, he began working towards and MFA in Writing/Critical Studies at CalArts, while he was still taking graduate classes in Comparative Literature and Critical Studies at UC, Irvine. Explaining the latter would require a psycho-biography and space does not permit that.

He is a lecturer in the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University at Fullerton and a full-time faculty member at the Art Institute of California at Hollywood where he feels most comfortable. in addition, for the past decade, he has taught LSAT, GMAT and GRE for various test-prep companies in Los Angeles and Orange counties. He finds certainty in matters of faith a precursor to...superhuman disagreements, euphemistically speaking.