Writing to Save Your Life, featuring Samina Ali

This week’s episode tells the story of a dramatic and traumatic story, and how writing played a central role in recovery and changing the outcome of one author’s life. This week’s episode is epic tale as much as it is interview, and it will change the way you think of the power of writing to charge your neurons and heal your mind—not to mention the way you think about willpower, writers’ block, and why writing is both personally and universally life-changing and life-saving. This week’s harrowing and fascinating story-episode is not to be missed.

ABOUT SAMINA ALI

Samina Ali is the author of Madras on Rainy Days, which won the French Prix Premier Roman Etranger Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction. She is also a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Samina is also an influential advocate and spokesperson for Muslim women’s rights worldwide. Her TEDx talk, “What the Qur’an Really Says About the Hijab,” which has over 8 million views. And she just published her memoir, Pieces You’ll Never Get Back.