Sabaa Tahir is best known for her New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes quartet. She grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, listening to thunderous indie rock, and playing guitar and piano badly. She began writing her #1 New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes series while working nights as a newspaper editor. The series has been translated into over thirty-five languages, and the first book was named one of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. Tahir’s recent novel All My Rage received the 2022 YA National Book Award, the 2023 Printz Award, and the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry. Her work has appeared on many best book lists including Amazon, Buzzfeed, The New York Public Library, Indigo, Barnes & Noble, Hypable, Paste, Bustle, LA Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and Entertainment Weekly.
Sabaa Tahir
2023 Author
Sabaa Tahir is best known for her New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes quartet. She grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, listening to thunderous indie rock, and playing guitar and piano badly. She began writing her #1 New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes series while working nights as a newspaper editor. The series has been translated into over thirty-five languages, and the first book was named one of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. Tahir’s recent novel All My Rage received the 2022 YA National Book Award, the 2023 Printz Award, and the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry. Her work has appeared on many best book lists including Amazon, Buzzfeed, The New York Public Library, Indigo, Barnes & Noble, Hypable, Paste, Bustle, LA Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and Entertainment Weekly.
