Sabaa Tahir
ABOUT SABAA TAHIR
Writer of the bestselling novel An Ember in the Ashes as well as the 2016 novel A Torch Against the Night. She previously worked as an editor for the Washington Post.
She interned at the Washington Post while attending UCLA , and began working their after graduating.
She briefly worked in a hospital after her parents assured her that she would want to be a doctor.
She was raised by Pakistani immigrant parents in the Mojave Desert.
On her personal website, she mentioned her favorite book to be Shel Silverstein 's The Giving Tree.