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ON AIR

  • Call Your Girlfriend: Summer Books 2019

  • Castle Talk: Aminah Mae Safi on her sweet "Gay Rory+Paris" book Tell Me How You Really Feel

  • First Draft Pod: Aminah Mae Safi


 


SELECTED
INTERVIEWS

  • Publishers Weekly: Why YA?

  • LA Times: Meet the Writers: The children’s authors of Hancock Park throw a grown-up party

  • Nerdist: Aminah Mae Safi on Remixing Robin Hood in Travelers Along the Way

  • WNDB: Embracing Chaotic Good in Aminah Mae Safi’s Travelers Along the Way

  • WNDB: 6 Authors Share What They Love About Writing YA Romance

  • School Library Journal: YA Authors Recast Their Problematic Faves

  • WNDB: Why Aminah Mae Safi Wrote a Book About Saving Indie Bookstores

  • The Nerd Daily: Q&A: Aminah Mae Safi, Author of ‘This Is All Your Fault’

  • Publishers Weekly: In Conversation: Aminah Mae Safi and April Poole

  • Publishers Weekly: Feiwel Series to Put New Faces and Spins on Classics

  • Double the Books: Issue 33 - June 2019

  • BookRiot: “You are not your worst days": An Interview with Aminah Mae Safi

  • Hypable: Aminah Mae Safi on mean girls, messy friendships, and bad decisions in ‘Not the Girls You’re Looking For’

  • Rich in Color: Interview with Aminah Mae Safi

  • #DVPit Blog: A #DVpit Success Story: Interview with Aminah Mae Safi and Lauren MacLeod

  • The Spinning Pen: YA Author Interview: Aminah Mae Safi


 

SELECTED
PRESS

  • LA Times: 30 L.A. writers choose L.A.’s best literary places

  • Publishers Weekly: 2022 Fierce Reads Tour in Photos

  • Deadline: Tanya Saracho & UCP Announce Five Inaugural Ojalá Ignition Lab Fellows

  • Distractify: Celebrate Women's History Month All Year Long With These Books About Female Friendships

  • Bustle: If You Could Invite Anyone To Dinner, Who Would You Choose?

  • We Are Bookish: 14 Authors Share Their Favorite Indie Bookstores

  • BNTEEN: 16 Authors Share Their Favorite YA Books of 2018

  • Cosmopolitan: The 20 Best Young Adult Books You'll Read All Year

  • Pop Sugar: 12 New YA Books That Will Wow You This October

  • Cosmopolitan, Middle East: 10 autumn book releases to look forward to this October

  • Goodreads: October's Most Anticipated YA Reads

  • Autostraddle: 65 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Fall 2020

  • GoodReads: 48 Highly Anticipated YA Novels for the Rest of 2020

  • School Library Journal: Meet-Cutes Come in All Colors: 13 Irresistible YA Romances

  • The Good Men Project: 10 Awesome LGBTQ Books You Should Actually Read

  • The Young Folks: 8 Perfect Novels Set In Bookstores

  • BNTEEN Blog: 11 Authors Discuss Dress Codes, Bullies, and More in June’s YA Open Mic

  • BuzzFeed: 18 YA Authors Recommend Their Favorite Feminist Books


 



ON WRITING

  • Salon: Why I write carefree Muslim girls

  • SwoonReads: Guest Author Aminah Mae Safi–Ask Why, Not How

  • PubCrawl: The Edge Of Discomfort

  • PubCrawl: Good Problems Take Time

  • PubCrawl: Launching a Book Is the Starting Line (Not the Finish Line)

  • PubCrawl: Watch More Moves (For Real)

  • Pub Crawl: There Is No Wrong Way To Write A Book

  • Pub Crawl: On Shameless Self-Promotion

  • Pub Crawl: Back to The Basics

  • Pub Crawl: Plotters, Pantsers, and Bill Murray

  • Pub Crawl: Deep Breath — There’s No Such Thing As A Waste

  • Pub Crawl: Beating the Book Two Blues

  • Pub Crawl: Introducing… Aminah Mae Safi

  • Writer's Digest: The Misbehavior of Fictional Children: A #DVpit Blog Hop on Character-Driven Fiction