This we speak to YA author Amina Lovell! Born in London and raised in Antigua and Barbuda, Amina’s trilogy Opal Island is heavily based on her Caribbean upbringing and West African folklore. Before she started writing young adult fiction, she was a television news producer for three and a half years, after attending The School of Journalism at Columbia University. In the spring of 2019, she decided to quit her production job and pursue writing full-time. 

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