Diana Abu-Jaber has written four award-winning novels for adults: Birds of Paradise, Origin, Crescent, and Arabian Jazz. Her memoirs, Life Without a Recipe and The Language of Baklava, have been published in many languages and taught around the world. As the daughter of a Jordanian immigrant, Diana spent much of her childhood in the Middle East and especially loved listening to her relatives’ folktales about the jinn and the ifrit. After her own daughter was born, Diana began weaving her a bedtime folktale that became the basis of Silverworld.
Diana teaches at Portland State University and lives with her family in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
