Leena Althekair

Born and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Leena’s passion for writing bloomed when she was nine and had only grown stronger as the years wore on. She strives to create a positive impact on her surroundings and to leave a positive mark on the world, as evident by her speech at the National Cultural Forum in 2017, and her debut novel, Foreshadow, which earned her the title of “Youngest English-Language Saudi Author” and first place in Effat University’s “Culture and Science Fair Competition” in 2018.

In a world where an empty page is a blank canvas and her words are the brush, she finds inspiration and passion in penning a story for herself and someone else to find comfort in. She expanded on her writing skills in a two-week workshop in Oxford University in 2019. Presently, she writes short stories in-between working towards her Computer Science degree and has more unfinished novel drafts than she cares to admit.

Captivated by the ever-evolving technological world we live in, she enjoys reading articles and watching documentaries about all the various new tech, regardless of if it’s within her field of study. She aspires to add to her engineering knowledge the concepts of entrepreneurship and psychology, to not only understand the machines but also the people she works with. Check out her work and collaborate on GitHub.

If she isn’t knee-deep in character development or building a game, she’s most likely practicing one of her ever-changing hobbies. She’s an extrovert who would gladly set aside her current project to reach out to a new friend or two, sharing inspiration along the way.