Fatima Kara is a Zimbabwean writer living in the USA. The Train House on Lobengula Street, her first novel, grows out of her childhood experiences in the Indian community in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and the inspirational response of the community's strong women to the racial discrimination that was extended towards all non-Whites. The book was shortlisted for the UK's Laxfield Literary Launch Prize in 2020. The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities around Zimbabwe.