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Naima Brown

Naima Brown is the author of The Shot and Mother Tongue (Macmillan), and the co-author of How To Age Against The Machine (Hardie Grant).

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Naima Brown

Naima Brown holds degrees in Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology and Religious Studies. Her short fiction has appeared in Popshot Magazine and the Love on the Road anthology. Her essays have appeared in Vogue Australia, the Guardian Australia, and more. She wrote, along with Melissa Doyle, the non-fiction book How to Age Against the Machine.

She has spent over a decade working in news, current affairs and documentary – save for her brief stint in reality TV, which inspired her first novel, The Shot. She was born and raised in Northern California before living and working in Yemen and Afghanistan, and now lives in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales with her husband and her dog. Mother Tongue is her second novel.

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