Featured Interview With Boshra Rasti
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Boshra Rasti was raised in British Columbia, Canada and works as an expatriate teacher in Qatar. She received a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership at Royal Roads University, which proved a fateful blow to her belief in anything hierarchical. However, it did spark her desire to flee from the real world and start writing about other ones. When she is not working to earn a living, she enjoys the escape that reading and writing lend her. She also enjoys physical running, even if it is of the sadistic variety in Qatar.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I was slow to read. I was a super awkward, anxious, and as my second grade teacher said, “had my head in the clouds”. I started my addiction to reading in grade 5, I found the Lion the Witch in the Wardrobe and was hooked!
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I really don’t have a favorite author, but I love the concise and eloquent work of Jhumpa Lahiri. I read a wide variety of literature.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Surrogate Colony is a dystopian, post pandemic novel that is really a cautionary tale about the dangers of technology. I just read this morning that Bill Gates believes that by 2024 we’ll be having interviews and meetings in the “metaverse” . To me this is deeply disturbing, and quite cerebral to the point of nausea. We have a body. We should breathe. We should touch. We are organic and do have an expiry date. I am not quite sure why some people overly involved in technology have a hard time with that.
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