Atia Abawi

Atia Abawi (born 9 August 1982) is an American author, DEI speaker and television journalist. She worked as a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan and was based in Kabul for nearly five years. Her debut novel, The Secret Sky: A Novel of Forbidden Love in Afghanistan, was published by Penguin Random House in September 2014. Abawi has written about women's rights and gender issues in Afghanistan. She is fluent in Dari and is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.