Ukaisha Al-Amin Graduated from Columbia College Chicago in '08 with Honors with a B.A in Fiction Writing and minor in Playwriting. She is currently studying creative writing with a Fiction concentration in the MFA program at Roosevelt University. Her Flash Fiction piece 'The Stairwell' won first place in the Writing Center's First annual Flash Fiction Contest. Her play 'Rooms For Breathing' was workshopped and a staged reading directed by Lisa Di' Franza was performed in the theater department at Columbia College. Her other plays 'Jerry Trauma' and 'Without Mother' were performed during Columbia's annual Story Week Festival.
Ukaisha has lived in Chicago most of her life but she loves to travel and visiting family in China is a plus. She loves to read and write Young Adult Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels and is amazed by writers who have mastered the short story. Realistic Fiction is not her forte but she happens to have more stories in that category than the later. What?! Her library at home is so random. She has books from Roald Dahl to Susan Lori-Parks, Anne Rice to John Green, and Aimee Bender to Shakespeare back to Suzanne Collins. Yes, she reads them all.
She is currently trying to build her platform, work on her thesis, and master the Force all with the help of Master Yoda.
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