Na’amen Gobert Tilahun

Na’amen Gobert Tilahun is the author of the bestselling urban fantasy ‘The Root’. He spent most of his childhood split between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Then he moved to the Bay Area once he completed his high school graduation. He also writes non fiction and has done a significant amount of freelance writing. His articles and poems have been published in a variety of online magazines like io9.com, Queers Dig Time Lords, Stone Telling, The Big Click, Eleven Eleven, faggot dinosaur, Full of Crows. After the publication of his debut venture ‘The Root’ he was listed as the top 13 Bay Area Authors to Look out for by 7 X 7 magazine. He has been into the web of writing stories since he was a kid. His writing however got its due recognition only when he reached 7th grade. His decision to take writing seriously came much later when he was in college. He has been a connoisseur of stories from an early age and would read up whatever he could find. His writing has a flair which can twerk the reality into fantastical objects and mythological ideas. His unique talent is in the realization of his personal stories in a multi-dimensional setup with proper research and a unique voice. His urban fantasy stands apart in the sense that it mixes his own lived experience with his wild imaginations. He believes that it was his lonely walks in the night when he would walk home from his night classes which actually triggered his ability to experience stories.