Nazneen Sheikh was born in Kashmir and went to school in Pakistan and Texas. She has written three titles for young adult audiences: Camels Can Make You Homesick and Other Stories (1985); Heartbreak High (1988); and Lucy and Time of My Life for the Degrassi television series (1989). She has also written several books of adult fiction and non-fiction including Chopin People (1994); Ice Bangles (1988); and most recently Moon Over Marrakech (2010), and The Place of Shining Light (2016). Her culinary memoir, Tea and Pomegranates: A Memoir of Food, Family and Kashmir (2005), won second place in the English and French special interest food and beverage book category from Cuisine Canada and the University of Guelph. She lives in Toronto.