ABOUT
Ami Boghani is best known for co-writing and co-producing Mira Nair's thriller The Reluctant Fundamentalist, based on Mohsin Hamid's Booker-Prize nominated novel.
She is currently on the writing staff for a Dreamworks Animation show that will air on Apple TV in 2023. Before that, she was a story editor on season 2 of The Fame Game (Netflix India) and a writer on Alma’s Way (PBS Kids).
Ami co-wrote The Ever Never Handbook as part of Soman Chainani's New York Times bestselling middle grade series The School for Good and Evil. Her novel A Script For Danger, for Simon & Schuster's The Nancy Drew Diaries series, was published under the name Carolyn Keene. In 2015, Random House awarded Ami second place in their We Need Diverse Books Short Story Contest.
Ami began her career at Mirabai Films, the production company of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair. There, she developed screenplays for The Namesake, Amelia, and produced several short films. She was also instrumental in the establishment of the Maisha Foundation, a training program for filmmakers in East Africa.
Ami is a graduate of Wesleyan University's Film Studies Program. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.