"Thalassa writes not as a foreigner, acquainted with India, but as a hard-core local"
– Libas International Pakistan
"A writer who shows a remarkable insight into the Indian psyche and way of life."
– Newsline, Pakistan
"Thalassa Ali has truly mastered the storyteller's art."
– She Magazine, Pakistan
Thalassa Ali was born in Massachusetts. Raised as an Episcopalian, she fell in love with mystical Islam while studying Sufi (Mystical Islamic) poetry at Harvard University.
After finishing college, she married a Pakistani, and lived in Karachi for the next twelve years.
10 years after her return to the US, she embraced Islam at the hands of a Sufi Shaikh. Six years after that, she began writing The Paradise Trilogy.
Although she now lives in Boston, Massachusetts, she has never lost her deep connection to Pakistan, the country she calls her second home.