Tahereh Mafi

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Tahereh Mafi
Mafi in 2025
Mafi in 2025
Born (1988-11-09) November 9, 1988 (age 37)
Connecticut, United States
OccupationAuthor
NationalityIranian-American
Alma materSoka University
GenreYoung Adult literature
Notable worksShatter Me
Spouse
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(m. 2013)​
Children1
Website
taherehmafi.com

Tahereh Mafi (November 10, 1988) is an Iranian-American author based in Santa Monica, California. She is known for writing young adult fiction.

Early life

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Mafi was born on November 9, 1988, in a small town in Connecticut. She is the youngest child of her family and has four older brothers.[1] Mafi's parents are immigrants from Iran.[2] At age 12 she moved with her family to Northern California and at age 14 they moved to Orange County.[3]

Mafi graduated from University High School in Irvine, California. She later graduated from the Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California.[2] She has varying levels of competency in eight different languages. She studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain for a semester in college. During this trip she had the opportunity to be fully immersed in the Spanish language.[1]

Career

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Mafi stated that before writing her first novel, Shatter Me, she wrote five manuscripts in order to better understand how to write a book.[4]

Shatter Me was published on November 15, 2011. Since then, Unravel Me (published on February 5, 2013) and Ignite Me (published on February 4, 2014) have been released. Mafi has 5 novellas that go with the Shatter Me series, Destroy Me, Fracture Me, Shadow Me, Reveal Me, and Believe Me.[5] Film rights to Shatter Me have been purchased by 20th Century Fox.[2]

In August 2016 Mafi released Furthermore, a middle-grade fiction novel about a pale girl living in a world of great color and magic of which she has none.[6]

In April 2017, Mafi announced another trilogy in the Shatter Me universe following the same cast of characters. The first installment, Restore Me, is told from a dual-POV from Juliette Ferrars and Warner, the protagonist and antagonist, respectively, in the original trilogy. Restore Me was published on March 6, 2018.

Mafi's next book, A Very Large Expanse of Sea, was released on October 16, 2018. It was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.[7]

Personal life

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Mafi currently resides in Irvine, California, where she continues to write.[8] In 2013 she married author Ransom Riggs.[8][9] In March 2017, Mafi announced via Twitter that she was pregnant. She gave birth to a daughter, Layla, on 30 May 2017.[10][11] She identifies as Muslim.[12]

Bibliography

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The Shatter Me series

  • Shatter Me (2011)
  • Unravel Me (2013)
  • Ignite Me (2014)
  • Restore Me (2018)
  • Defy Me (2019)
  • Imagine Me (2020)

Novellas

  • Destroy Me (2012)
  • Fracture Me (2013)
  • Shadow Me (2019)
  • Reveal Me (2019)
  • Believe Me (2021)

The Shatter Me series: The New Republic (spin-off to The Shatter Me series)

  • Watch Me (2025)
  • Release Me (2026)

Furthermore series

  • Furthermore (2016)
  • Whichwood (2017)

This Woven Kingdom series

  • This Woven Kingdom (2022)
  • These Infinite Threads (2023)
  • All This Twisted Glory (2024)
  • Every Spiral of Fate (2025)

Standalones

  • A Very Large Expanse of Sea (2018)
  • An Emotion of Great Delight (2021)

Compilations

  • Unite Me (2014) (Compilation of Destroy Me and Fracture Me)
  • Find Me (2019) (Compilation of Shadow Me and Reveal Me)

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