Book Fest 2020 Update: Announcing Aminah Mae Safi!



Welcome Aminah Mae Safi as a La Quinta Book Fest 2020 guest author and panelist!

Aminah Mae Safi is an LA-based writer who explores art, fiction, feminism, and film. She is the author of Not the Girls You're Looking For, Tell Me How You Really Feel, and the upcoming This is All Your Fault, to be released June 2020. 

Learn more about her work:
- Listen to Aminah on the Giant Panda Podcast discussing Tell Me How You Really Feel, her most recent book and an ode to romantic comedies, following two girls on opposite sides of the social scale as they work together to make a movie and try very hard not to fall in love.
- Read this 2018 interview with Book Riot, in which Aminah discusses her first book, Not the Girls You're Looking For, her character-driven writing process, and more.

Find her on Twitter, Instagram, or at https://www.aminahmae.com/

Aminah will be a panelist in our "Books as Social Commentary" panel at Book Fest 2020 on Saturday, February 1, 2020!
Head over to our Panel Sessions page for info on all our panel topics plus registration information.

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