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  • Fatima Ali
    Born in Pakistan, Fatima Ali was a chef in New York City. She received her education from the Culinary Institute of America and, at the age of twenty-three, competed in and won an episode of Chopped ...

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  • Monica Ali
    Monica Ali
    Monica Ali is the daughter of English and Bangladeshi parents.

    She came to England at the age of three, and her first home was Bolton in Greater Manchester. Ali later studied at Oxford University.

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    Brick Lane
    In the Kitchen

  • Nujood Ali
    Nujood Ali was the first child bride in Yemen to win a divorce. Named a Glamour Woman of the Year in 2008, she has been profiled in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Time magazine. She ...

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    I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
  • Dante Alighieri
    Dante Alighieri (c.1265-1321) is the author of The Divine Comedy, a masterpiece of world literature.

    Mary Jo Bang is the author of six books of poetry, including Elegy, winner of the National Book ...

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    Inferno
  • Jane Alison
    Jane Alison is the author of a memoir, The Sisters Antipodes, and three novels - The Love-Artist, The Marriage of the Sea, and Natives and Exotics - and the translator of Ovid's stories of sexual ...

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    Nine Island
    The Sisters Antipodes
  • Xhenet Aliu
    Xhenet Aliu
    Xhenet Aliu's debut fiction collection, Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, The ...

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    Brass

  • Hanna Alkaf
    Hanna Alkaf graduated with a degree in Journalism from Northwestern University and now spends most of her time making things up as she goes along, both as a writer of fiction and as a mom. The Weight ...

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    The Weight of Our Sky
  • Suzanne Allain
    Suzanne Allain is a screenwriter who lived in New York and Beijing before returning to her hometown of Tallahassee, Florida, where she lives with her husband. She makes frequent visits to Los Angeles ...

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