Ahmed Jones is a British-Pakistani novelist and former climatologist, born in 1985 in Cardiff and raised between Swansea and Lahore. He studied atmospheric physics at the University of Leeds, worked with the UK Met Office on seasonal forecasting, and moonlighted as a bookseller before turning to fiction.
His work threads weather lore, diaspora memory, and quiet magic. He is the author of Salt Roads & Star Charts (2018) and The Thirteenth Isobar (2021), and his short fiction has appeared in small-press magazines across the UK. He has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award and the Kitschies. Ahmed lives in Bristol with his partner and a rescue greyhound; he builds handmade astrolabes and teaches community workshops on climate storytelling.
