Jamil Jan Kochai is an author.Kochai's first book, the novel "99 Nights in Logar," was published in 2019, and won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. His second book, the collection "his second book, called The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories," was published in 2022.Kochai received a B.A. in English from California State University Sacramento, an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California Davis and a second M.A. in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.