Shazia Omar

Shazia Omar writes fiction shaped by everything else she's lived. A social psychologist by training (she completed her undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College and a Master's in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics), she has spent years studying how people cope, connect, and survive, work that later carried into grassroots development and advocacy.

That same attention shows up in her novels: in the addiction and redemption of Like a Diamond in the Sky, in the historical power plays of Dark Diamond, in the children's stories written for the girls she works alongside. Fifteen years of teaching Ashtanga yoga taught her to sit with the body's own kind of knowledge; a decade of development work, on poverty, migration, and gender, taught her whose stories don't get told. Both find their way onto the page.

She now channels all of it into The Flow Fest, a platform for wellness, movement, creativity, and healing.

"Thank you for visiting my universe."