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Podcast: Paper Trails Podcast
Episode: Inspyre Reads Season 1, Ep.6- Amilah (ft. Halima Hagi-Mohamed)
Description: Last week we kicked off the year with a special guest and for the episode we've followed up with another amazing guest.Halima Hagi-Mohamed was born in Nairobi, Kenya to Somali parents. She was raised in Fresno, California and is the second youngest of nine children. Hagi-Mohamed has been writing since the young age of twelve. She got her start by writing on popular story sharing website Wattpad, and later ventured into writing fictional stories about life in the Somali diaspora. In 2010, she won the online Pen Writing Competition, placing first in her division. A year later, she created a...