Alina Boyden

Alina Boyden is an American author, trans rights activist and student of cultural anthropology. She became widely known when she won a transgender case fighting for the rights of transgender employees For a very long time she has been involved in the civil rights struggle in Pakistan and India but currently splits her time between South Asia and the United States. Her work focuses on the khwaja Siras who are transgender women in Pakistan that use their unique organizational skills to advance their rights abroad and at home. She was inspired by the spirit of these women in her civil rights case in the United States where she won the landmark transgender case with the ACLU. Alina wrote Stealing Thunder her transportive and gorgeous debut in 2020. It is an immersive work hat synthesizes her anthropological work with Mughal Indian history. For inspiration she uses her work with South Asian transgender communities to make a beautiful fantasy setting for a range of brilliant characters. When she is not working on her doctoral dissertation, traveling or writing her novels, she will be found engaging in flying airplanes or swordplay which are her childhood passions.