When she’s not writing or reading, she can be found on her lifelong quest for the perfect pastry. These days, Samira lives in Chicago, Illinois. She is the first South Asian Muslim writer of the popular Marvel Comics superhero, Ms. Samira is the New York Times bestselling author of Love, Hate, & Other Filters, Internment and Mad, Bad, & Dangerous to Know. Samira Ahmed is the New York Times -bestselling and award winning author of young adult novels Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment, M ad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, and Hollow Fires, as well as the Amira & Hamza middle grade fantasy series. After she left the classroom, she worked in education non-profits, helping to create more than seventy small high schools in New York City and fought to secure billions of dollars in public school funding throughout New York State. She received her BA and MAT from the University of Chicago and went on to teach high school English in both the suburbs of Chicago and the New York City Public Schools. She presents Radio 4s Front Row and BBC1s Newswatch and is a Visiting Professor of. Samira always loved to write-especially poetry–-but never actually dreamed of becoming a writer until she was an adult and an idea for a story captured her imagination and wouldn’t let go. Columnist Samira Ahmed is an award winning journalist and broadcaster.
Born in Bombay India and raised outside of Chicago, Illinois, Samira spent countless hours at the library in her small hometown nestled in an oversized armchair next to an old Victorian fireplace with her nose in an Agatha Christie novel or re-reading Little Women, hoping that Jo would somehow end up with Laurie this time. Samira Ahmed is the bestselling author of Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, and Amira & Hamza: The War to.
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