NADIA AGUIAR received a BA from McMaster University in Canada and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia. She currently lives in Bermuda, where she was born and raised.
- The Pamela Jane, the boat in The Lost Island of Tamarind, is named after one of Nadia's aunts.
- In early drafts of the book, Maya’s name was Ruby.
- Nadia grew up on Tamarind Vale Road
- All of Nadia's family members are from islands—Bermuda, the Azores, and Great Britain.
Favorite authors/books: "Madeleine L’Engle; The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder; the May Bird books, by Jodi Lynn Anderson, which I discovered only recently—they have a wonderful, ensemble, Wizard of Oz feel; The Witches, by Roald Dahl—I loved that the witches had blue spit; Swallows and Amazons, by Arthur Ransome; Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White; Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Adult fiction: Alice Munro; Steven Millhauser; A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes. Recently I’ve also been reading a lot of popular science books."
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