![]() Behind her was her bodyguard, whom Chelsea new was a jinn. In her mind she saw a merchant in these star-dusted robes sitting on this ship, a coin dancing across her knuckles. ![]() She mused on the idea about writing an Arab-inspired fantasy for years until this one day, where the opening scene of the novel simultaneously came to her. ![]() When she left the country to attend university in the states and began missing home, these stories were the very first thing that she latched onto as a writer. ![]() She grew up on stories “1001 Nights” and with oral stories from around the region. The central driving force behind “The Stardust” was nostalgia. When Chelsea’s not immersed in her own fictional worlds, she spends her free time doodling characters, playing video games, and hoarding all these books that she does not have the shelf space for. Consumed by wanderlust, she has set down roots in various states.Īfter she earned her MA in English at Duquesne University, she moved to New York, where she lives. Chelsea Abdullah is an American-Kuwati author born and raised in Kuwait, where she grew up hearing these stories about some mysterious desert creatures and some wily (yet only sometimes likable) heroes. ![]()
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