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I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away from this world, which I needed.
I find booksellers comforting - they're my people.
I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give me comfort. As I grew up, I realized I could find that sense of power and voice if I simply started writing.
I grew up in a small town in the Mojave Desert where conservative Republicans were as common as cacti. Inexplicably, I grew up liberal and a feminist.
I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base. My family was one of the only South Asian families in this town. We felt it. We knew.
I grew up raiding my brother's comic book stash. I tried to lose myself in fiction.
I like to write when things are calm - and when I'm not worried about my well-being, the well-being of those I love.
I love my characters like family and cannot wait to share more of their story with readers.
I think that YA stories have a lot of heart, and I think that whatever age we are, we connect to them because we sort of see ourselves in them.
I wanted to write something that reflected the violence and horror of the world, but I also wanted to reflect the way people fight to survive, even when society wants to crush them.
I was 5 when I got the speech about how I would have to work harder and longer than everyone else because I was brown.
I was an outsider. I looked different, and I felt really voiceless as a kid.
If I refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could not watch them suffer.
If I'm really excited about a scene, I used to wait to write it, and now I'll just write it. When you do that, all sorts of awesome things can happen from just giving in and writing that scene you're excited about.
In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions of food, clothing, and places. I want to understand the world to its core, through the eyes of those who live in it.
It was hard to feel hated as a child.
I've loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked.
Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.
Like so many other young South Asians in America, I am the product of two cultures whose conflicting values pull at me with equal urgency. Never have I felt as torn between the two as I do about the question of marriage.
Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a young reader becomes a writer or not, they deserve to know that their story, whatever it may be, is important.
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Ahmed Chalabi
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BirthDate
30 October, 1944
DeathDate
03 November, 2015
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Iraq
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