Diana Abu-Jaber

Diana Abu-Jaber is most recently the author of Fencing With the King, and Birds of Paradise, an Indie Books Pick, as well as the award-winning memoirs Life Without a Recipe and The Language of Baklava and the bestselling novels Origin and Crescent, which was awarded the PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the American Book Award. Her first novel, Arabian Jazz, won the Oregon Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Silverworld is Diana's first novel for children and started as a tale she told to entertain her young niece while vacationing in a condo lined with mirrors!

A frequent contributor to NPR, she teaches at Portland State University and divides her time between Portland and Fort Lauderdale.