Zara al-Mansour

CURRENT STATUS: Writing my fourth novel from a 24-hour café in Dubai Marina, fueled by too much Turkish coffee and the weird energy that hits at 3 AM.

PREVIOUS PLOT TWISTS:

Earned a PhD in CS (computer science, ofc) from Oxford while secretly writing young adult stories during lectures

Built AI systems for Silicon Valley startups until one of my machines started generating poetry (not really, but wouldn't that be cool?)

Accidentally became a novelist when my blog about djinn living in quantum computers went viral (plz, don’t check it out, it’s total disaster)

Somehow convinced a major publisher that ancient Arabic folklore and artificial intelligence belonged in the same book (nope)

COMPATIBLE SYSTEMS:

Karim (partner, game designer, excellent debugger of plot holes)

Ada (cat, named after Ada Lovelace, chief disruption officer)

CURRENT PROJECT STATUS: 40% complete, 60% possessed by literary djinn, 100% powered by Turkish coffee