Aminah Mae Safi

Aminah Mae Safi is a Muslim American young adult author who explores film, art, feminism, and fiction. Safi loves Bollywood endings, Sofia Coppola films and has watched every movie in the “Fast and Furious” franchise. She graduated with an art history degree from the University of Southern California and got her masters in Islamic Art History from the University of Chicago. Her thesis was on Identity Crisis which perhaps explains why she loves to write novels centered on the theme of identity. Aminah currently lives in Los Angeles California with her partner and two cats. She published her first novel “Not The Girls You’re Looking For” in 2018. She has also written essays and articles that have appeared in “Salon” and “Pub Crawl.” Her short story “Be Cool, For Once” was published in the anthology “Fresh Ink.”