Born and raised in Tangier, Morocco, Nadia Benjelloun currently attends high school at the American School of Tangier. She loves to read and write, and wrote since she was seven years old. Nadia has had her first piece of individual piece of writing published when she was ten years old. Ever since, she was motivated to continue writing, and published several other short stories and poems and adopted poetry composition when she was fifteen. Along with her debut book, Receptive Sentiments, she has a fictional novel under progress, set to be completed in the summer of 2015.