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name: Shelina Shariff-Zia
about: Shelina Shariff-Zia grew up in Nairobi, a tomboy who climbed trees and was always getting into trouble. She is the fifth generation of an Indian family who moved to Kenya from Gujarat. She attended Loreto Convent Msongari, a renowned convent school run by Irish nuns. The author grew up speaking English, Gujarati and Swahili. At nineteen, she moved to Texas to study Literature at Rice University. She earned an M.A.in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Later she became a Wall Street reporter covering chemicals and finance. As a new bride, she lived in Karachi where she worked for Newline Magazine.After living in Nairobi, Kampala, Karachi, Toronto, Cincinnati, Minneapolis and Miami she has settled in New York. She teach Shelina Shariff-Zia grew up in Nairobi, a tomboy who climbed trees and was always getting into trouble. She is the fifth generation of an Indian family who moved to Kenya from Gujarat. She attended Loreto Convent Msongari, a renowned convent school run by Irish nuns. The author grew up speaking English, Gujarati and Swahili. At nineteen, she moved to Texas to study Literature at Rice University. She earned an M.A.in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Later she became a Wall Street reporter covering chemicals and finance. As a new bride, she lived in Karachi where she worked for Newline Magazine.After living in Nairobi, Kampala, Karachi, Toronto, Cincinnati, Minneapolis and Miami she has settled in New York. She teaches English at Bronx Community College. Nairobi Days is her first novel. She is working in her second book, a memoir about her family in Africa. ...more