Fahmida Azim
Fahmida Azim (; b. 1994) is a Bangladeshi-American illustrator and author. Fahmida won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 for her portrayal of an escape from a Xinjiang internment camp. Early life and education 
Azim was born in 1994 to a Bengali Muslim family in Bangladesh, and moved to the United States with her parents when she was a child. She was raised in Virginia, and graduated from VCU School of the Arts. Recognition
Azim and Seema Yasmin's book Muslim Women Are Everything was awarded the 2021 International Book Award for Multicultural Non-Fiction. Azim was a co-winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary, for her illustrations of the 2021 comics journalism work "How I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp". She also won the 2022 Golden Kite Award for Best Illustrated Book for Older Readers, for her illustrations in Samira Surfs by Rukhsanna Guidroz. Personal life
As of 2022, Azim lives in Seattle. Bibliography 
 (with Seema Yasmin) Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure (Harper Design, 2020) 
 (with Rukhsanna Guidroz) Samira Surfs (Kokila 2021) 
 (with Anthony Del Col and Josh Adams) I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp (New Friday, Sept. 2023)

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1994 births
American cartoonists
American children's book illustrators
American people of Bangladeshi descent
American women journalists of Asian descent
American writers of Bangladeshi descent
Bangladeshi emigrants to the United States
Living people
Pulitzer Prize winners
Virginia Commonwealth University alumni