Where the Streets Had a Name

Randa Abdel-Fattah is the award-winning author of young adult novels <em>Does My Head Look Big in This?</em> and <em>Ten Things I Hate About Me</em>. She is 28 and has her own identity hyphens to contend with (Australian-born-Muslim-Palestinian-Egyptian-choc-a-holic). Randa is active in the interfaith community and a member of the Coalition for Peace and Justice in Palestine. Randa also works as a lawyer and lives in Sydney with her husband, Ibrahim, and their two children. Her books have received acclaim around the world. Most recently, Randa was awarded the Kathleen Mitchell Award, a biennial literary award that acknowledges excellence in writers under 30.