Samiha Hoque is a Bangladeshi-American author, environmentalist, and co-founder of Shaherazad Shelves. She is a two time Climate Justice Fellow for the Center for Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health (CEEJH) and holds a B.S. in the Earth and Environmental Sciences with an English minor. Samiha is the author of the picture books A Country of Beautiful People (2023) and Brave Is the Tiger (2027), both of which are inspired by her Muslim Bengali upbringing. Her debut novel, Slums of Paradise, was selected as a She Writes Press STEP contest winner and explores the intertwining nature of immigration, marriage, and politics. Samiha’s essays have won the Dean Myrtle Saxon-Jacobson Award in Expository Prose and were nominated for the 2021 Brooklyn Non Fiction Prize. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she now lives with her extremely outdoorsy and romantic husband in Delaware.