Talia Basma graduated from the University of California, Davis with a degree in both Creative Writing and Literature. She is an alumna of the 2020 Writer's Roadmap class led by Tomi Adeyemi. She has a self-publish poetry collection called *Being*. One of her posts, "Your COVID Ramadan," was featured in the anthology (*Her)oics: Women's Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic* published in March 2021.

While she enjoys poetry and fantastical stories, her passion lies in writing contemporary romances with diverse, particularly Muslim, characters. When she's not writing, Talia indulges her homebody self with hobbies like reading, baking, and scrapbooking.