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Sabaa Tahir is a Pakistani-American[1] young adult novelist best known for her New York Times-bestselling An Ember in the Ashes and its sequels.[2]

Sabaa Tahir
Tahir at the 2015 National Book Festival
Occupation	Novelist
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	UCLA
Genre	Fantasy
Notable works	An Ember in the Ashes series
Website
sabaatahir.com

Two of her novels, An Ember in the Ashes and A Torch Against the Night, were listed among Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time in 2020.[3] In 2022, her novel All My Rage won the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. [4]

Tahir has also published non-fiction reviews and essays in The New York Times,[5][6] The Washington Post [7] and Vox.[8]

Life

Tahir grew up in the Mojave Desert in Ridgecrest, California with her parents and two older brothers.[1] Her parents emigrated from Pakistan to the United Kingdom before moving their family to the United States.[1] She attended UCLA, during which time she interned at The Washington Post. After graduation, she took a job there as a copy editor.[9] She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1]

Bibliography

Fantasy

An Ember in the Ashes

• An Ember in the Ashes (2015)
• A Torch Against the Night (2016)
• A Reaper at the Gates (2018)
• A Sky Beyond the Storm (2020)

An Ember in the Ashes Graphic Novel Prequel

• A Thief Among the Trees (2020)
• A Spark Within the Forge (2022)
• TBA

Contemporary

All My Rage

• All My Rage (2022)

Short fiction

• Reirin, From a Certain Point of View, Del Rey, (2017)
• Waiting, Three Sides of a Heart, ed. Natalie C. Parker, Harper Collins (2017)
• News of the Day, The New York Times ed. Veronica Chambers and Jeff Giles, [The New York Times], (2019)
• Forthcoming Untitled, Magic Has No Borders, ed. Samira Ahmed, Harper Teen (2023)

References

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