Samiha
Samiha
Samiha
A proud Bangladeshi New Yorker, Samiha holds a bachelor's in Earth and Environmental Sciences with a minor in English and is enrolled in UCLA's Editing and Publishing Certificate program.
She acquires chapter books, middle grade, young adult, and adult fiction across a range of genres. In fiction, she has a soft spot for fantasy, historical fiction, and romance, but wants everything that can count as a "Muslim book."
In nonfiction, she leans toward career-based memoirs and science.
Read a more detailed MSWL here.
Laura
Samiha
Samiha
Laura Vidarte is an illustrator, visual designer, and writer from Colombia. She graduated with honors from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali with a BA in Visual Communication Design.
She can be found on Instagram as @vidartetheartist.
She works closely on book cover design and interior illustrations for children's fiction at the Sorra Books and Shush Books imprints, on a per-project basis as needed.
Laura's gorgeous artwork can be seen in Love Language and The Library Guardian series.
Asad
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Asad
Muhammad Asadullah (Asad) is an Indonesian illustrator. He has always loved drawing from a young age because it brings his colorful inner world to the real world.
Asad loves storytelling, and he can now say that becoming a storybook illustrator is one of his dream jobs.
He works closely on book cover design and interior illustrations across all imprints of Shaherazad Shelves per project/as needed.
Asad's amazing illustrations can be seen in Yusuf and Yusra's Bunny Dilemma and The Colors of My Sky.