Tessa Afshar

Tessa Afshar is biblical and historical fiction award-winning American author who has made a name for herself in the Christian genre. Tessa was born in Iran and spent most of her childhood there, before she moved to England aged fourteen. In England, she went to a boarding school, which is where she was introduced to and fell in love with the likes of Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen. She converted to Christianity while she was in her twenties, which had a profound effect on her life. She migrated to the United States where she went to College at Yale, graduating with an MDiv. In addition to taking a theological course at Yale, she was the Divinity School’s co-chair of the Christian Fellowship. He currently serves on the board of one of the oldest American churches in the US, though she is yet to lose her love for chocolates. Afshar wrote her first novel “Pearl in the Sand” in 2010, before she followed it up with “Harvest of Rubies”, the first of the Harvest series in 2012. Over the years, she has won several awards including an Inspy award for “Land of Silence”, that was also the winner of the 2016 top five Christian Fiction novels. The novel also made the shortlist for the Best Inspirational Romance at the 2016 RT Reviewers Choice Awards. Afshar won the Best Historical Romance Christy Award for the novel Harvest of Gold, and made the finals for the Best Fiction title at eh 2013 ECPA Book Awards for “Harvest of Rubies”. “Pearl in the Sand” was the winner of the New Author of the Year Award in the 2011 Readers Choice Awards.