About
Fauzia Musa is a British-based writer and brand strategist whose work explores identity, religion, culture, migration, and motherhood. Born in Mumbai and raised between London and Northern California, she grew up across different cultural environments, experiences that inform her interest in belonging and the complexities of family relationships. She currently lives in London. Before publishing her debut novel, Musa built a career in brand consulting, working with international companies including Apple, Google, and Lego. Alongside her consulting work, she developed an editorial practice writing about culture and design, contributing personal essays and articles to publications including The New York Times, The Times, Monocle, and The Independent. She has also pursued creative nonfiction studies at King’s College London. The Strangling Fig, published in 2026, is her first novel. The story began as a memoir inspired by Musa’s desire to understand the difficult relationships between the women in her own family. As she researched her family’s migration history following the Partition of India, the project evolved into fiction, combining personal questions about motherhood and daughterhood with the wider historical trauma of displacement. The resulting novel brings together historical fiction, family saga, and supernatural elements to explore how inherited grief shapes identity—and how confronting the past might make healing possible.
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