About Shi Naseer
Chinese-Australian-Pakistani writer Shi Naseer has lived in nine countries and backpacked to over seventy. She recently moved with her husband and young son from Sweden to the USA and spends her winters in Pakistan. She aims to connect people by telling stories from different cultures.
Her debut, The Cry of the Silkworm, is forthcoming in June 2024 with Atlantic Books/Allen&Unwin. A coming-of-age and revenge story of a young girl in turn-of-the-century China, it reveals the devastating consequences of the one-child policy.
Shi Naseer holds a PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University.
Visit her at https://www.shinaseer.net
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