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Tahereh Mafi
Tahereh Mafi (November 10, 1988) is an Iranian-American author based in Santa Monica, California. She is known for writing young adult fiction. Early lifeMafi was born on November 9, 1988, in a small town in Connecticut. She is the youngest child of her family and has four older brothers.[1] Mafi's parents are immigrants from Iran.[2] At age 12 she moved with her family to Northern California and at age 14 they moved to Orange County.[3] Mafi graduated from University High School in Irvine, California. She later graduated from the Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California.[2] She has varying levels of competency in eight different languages. She studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain for a semester in college. During this trip she had the opportunity to be fully immersed in the Spanish language.[1] CareerMafi stated that before writing her first novel, Shatter Me, she wrote five manuscripts in order to better understand how to write a book.[4] Shatter Me was published on November 15, 2011. Since then, Unravel Me (published on February 5, 2013) and Ignite Me (published on February 4, 2014) have been released. Mafi has 5 novellas that go with the Shatter Me series, Destroy Me, Fracture Me', Shadow Me, Reveal Me, and Believe Me.[5] Film rights to Shatter Me have been purchased by 20th Century Fox.[2] In August 2016 Mafi released Furthermore, a middle-grade fiction novel about a pale girl living in a world of great color and magic of which she has none.[6] In April 2017, Mafi announced another trilogy in the Shatter Me universe following the same cast of characters. The first installment, Restore Me, is told from a dual-POV from Juliette Ferrars and Warner, the protagonist and antagonist, respectively, in the original trilogy. Restore Me was published on March 6, 2018. Mafi's next book, A Very Large Expanse of Sea, was released on October 16, 2018. It was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.[7] Personal lifeMafi currently resides in Irvine, California, where she continues to write.[8] In 2013 she married author Ransom Riggs.[8][9] In March 2017, Mafi announced via Twitter that she was pregnant. She gave birth to a daughter, Layla, on 30 May 2017.[10][11] She identifies as Muslim. [12] BibliographyThe Shatter Me series
Novellas
The Shatter Me series: The New Republic (spin-off to The Shatter Me series)
Furthermore series
This Woven Kingdom series
Standalones
Compilations
References
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