Ali Sethi (Urdu/Punjabi: علی سیٹھی; /seɪtiː/; born July 2, 1984) is a Pakistani singer, musician, writer, and columnist. Sethi achieved critical appraisal and recognition for authoring a novel The Wish Maker, which has been ranked in may top-ten lists and has been listed for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize Award. Sethi wrote several columns for New York Times, The New Yorker, The Caravan, and The Friday Times.