Fourteen Things About Aisha

 

You can find a full biography here.

 

1

Aisha learned to read when she was three years old and vowed to read every single picture book at her local library. She made it halfway through the A’s.

2

She began writing stories as soon as she learned to put pen to paper. She
can’t remember her very first story but it was most likely Sesame Street fan fiction.

3

Aisha fosters cats. She cries buckets of tears saying goodbye each and every time.

4

Aisha speaks three languages fluently: English, Urdu, and Punjabi.

5

Aisha has approximately eight hundred and eighty-seven story ideas she’s excited to write about at any given time.

6

Before becoming an author, Aisha had nine other jobs including a lawyer, a second-grade teacher,
and selling jeans at the Gap.

7

She loves writing lists. (Shocking, she knows.)

8

Aisha loves chai. If it were possible to subsist on only one food substance it would be chai.

9

Aisha loves traveling the world. Her favorite country (so far): Turkey.

10

Aisha is great at air hockey. She can beat just about anyone. (No, really. She can.)

11

Aisha’s idea of the perfect place to live is anywhere alongside the ocean but preferably in a beachside cottage on the island of Oahu.

12

Aisha once dreamed of visiting the Grand Canyon but when she finally did she learned she was afraid of heights.

13

Aisha loves trees. Be they Willows, Sycamores, or Poplar Oaks, she adores them all. Walking, sitting, daydreaming
among trees brings her a sense of wonder at the beauty of our world. Her favorite trees? Redwoods.

14

Aisha counts her lucky stars each and every day she gets to write books
for young people.