Sabaa Tahir grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s 18-room motel where she spent a lot of her time devouring fantasy novels. She wrote her debut novel, An Ember in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor. The book went on to become an international bestseller. Sabaa currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family and can be found online at www.sabaatahir.com and tweeting @sabaatahir.