Aamna Qureshi is a Muslim Pakistani American who adores words. She is the award-winning author of the YA fantasy novel, The Lady or the Lion. Her latest book is When a Brown Girl Flees. She grew up on Long Island, New York, in a very loud household, surrounded by English (for school), Urdu (for conversation), and Punjabi (for emotion). Much of her childhood was spent being grounded for reading past her bedtime and writing stories in the backs of her notebooks. She currently lives in New York.
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