Tanaz Bhathena

Tanaz Bhathena is a young adult author from Canada. She was born in Mumbai and when she was a year old her parents moved to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. She spent much of her childhood in Jedda and Riyadh until the family moved to Canada when she was a sixteen-year-old. As a child, she loved reading and over time she came to love writing. By the time she turned thirteen, she knew that she wanted a career as a professional author. She wrote her critically acclaimed debut novel “A Girl Like That” in 2018. The novel was named a Best Book of the Year by several publications including “The Times of India,” “The Globe and Mail,” and “Seventeen” among many others. She was nominated for the White Pine Award of the Ontario Library Association for her novel “The Beauty of the Moment” published in 2019. Tanaz is also the author of “Hunted by the Sky,” a fantasy novel that was published in 2020. Her short fiction has also been featured in a variety of publications such as “Room,” “The Hindu,” “Witness,” and “Blackbird.”