Born and raised in Mexico City, Adi Alsaid is the author of several young adult novels including Let’s Get Lost, We Didn’t Ask for This, and North of Happy, a Kirkus Best Book nominee. He also wrote the middle grade books The Bravest Warrior in Nefaria, The Greatest Heist in Joviala, and edited Come on In: 15 stories about Immigration and Finding Home. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife, son, and cat, where he occasionally spills hot sauce on things (and cats, though at the time of this writing, not yet on his son).
Workshop: How to write a story about anything
How did I reach a point in my life where I could turn a bedtime story in to a fully published novel? The short answer: observation and practice. I’ll talk about what to observe, and then we practice by writing a story together as a group.
