Ava Homa

Ava Homa was born in January 1981, in Iran into a Kurdish family, and grew up in Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan.^[5] She moved to Tehran to attend university at Allameh Tabataba'i University, and taught at Islamic Azad University.^[4] Later, she immigrated to Canada where she received her MA degree from University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario.^[4] She is a silver winner of Nautilus Book Awards for fiction in 2020.^[1]

• Homa, Ava (October 1, 2010). Echoes from the Other Land. TSAR Publications. ISBN 978-1-894770-64-4.^[6]
• Homa, Ava (May 12, 2020). Daughters of Smoke and Fire (1st ed.). The Overlook Press. ISBN 978-1419743092.^{[7][8][9][10]}