S2 E16: Nafiza Azad & using anger as writing fuel

We answer some more AMA’s including how authors do their own
promo and outside insight about Street Teams. Then Kat &
Claribel interview Nafiza Azad, the author of Morris Award
Finalist Novel, Candle and the Flame. We talk about her
experience learning creative writing in school, getting her
agent, and what it felt like to […]





Bio: Nafiza Azad was born in Fiji and spent the
first seventeen years of her life as a self-styled Pacific
Islander. Now she identifies as an Indo-Fijian Muslim Canadian,
which means she is often navigating multiple identities. Nafiza
has a love for languages and currently speaks four. She holds a
Master of Arts degree in Children's Literature from the
University of British Columbia and co-runs The Book Wars
(thebookwars.ca), a website dedicated to all things children's
literature. Nafiza currently lives in British Columbia with her
family.


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