Fatima Bala is a lecturer, poet, and writer who lives in Canada with her family and a pet fish named Fishy. Her books have received starred reviews from The Los Angeles Tribune, London Post, and New York Weekly. She graduated from Algonquin College, Vancouver Island University, and Stanford, where she studied Tourism, Business Management, and International Women's Rights. She loves traveling, playing board games, and watching movies with unanticipated twists.
“… I thought about the phrase, ‘do not embarrass us.’ Growing up, phrases like that and ‘what will people think?’ governed our every single decision and action as a family and how I lived my life…”