About the Author

     Fida Abbott is an award-winning author and blogger. Her book Enthusiasm received the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award from the National Association of Book Entrepreneur (NABE) for the Spring in 2010 for the category of Novel. In 2011, she was chosen as 2011 winner of 50 Great Writers You Should be Reading, presented by TheAuthorsShow.com. Her blog, www.fidaabbott.blogspot.com received Honorable Mention from BlogNetAwards.com in 2009 and was a Finalist of Christian Indonesian Blogger Festival in 2008, presented by Jawaban.com. Her other book, Exploring My Ideas, also received the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for the Summer in 2019 for the category of Short Story.

     Fida has been writing since she was thirteen. Her first short story was published in the Middle School Magazine in Surabaya, Indonesia, the city where she was born. Her first publication in the local daily newspaper was her poem she wrote when she was in High School.

     In 2002 she came to the USA and married her American fiance. With her husband and her daughter, they live in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, a city where she resides and expresses herself in her writings in English and Indonesian.

     She is a former director of an online writing course, www.pelatihanmenulis.com, as well as KabarIndonesia, an online Indonesian news, based on the citizen reporter, www.kabarindonesia.com. She is also a certified Department of Defense Language Instructor for Bahasa Indonesia, serving the United States Air Force (USAF). In addition to writing, she is a motivational speaker covering writing and other topics. (*)

Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2017