• A picture of Naseem Jamnia, a light-skinned West Asian person with curly brown and purple hair. They're wearing a green sweater. tombstone earrings, and a nose stud. They're tilted so that their torso is somewhat visible in this otherwise shoulders-up picture.

    NASEEM JAMNIA IS FIERCE AND DANGEROUS—IN ALL THE BEST WAYS.

    David Anthony Durham

    award-winning author of The Acacia Trilogy

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    The cover of THE GLADE, Naseem Jamnia's middle grade horror debut. An Iranian American tween wearing a dark blue hoodie and jeans stands in the center of the image, her fists clenched, bicep-length brown hair whipping around her face. Around her are mushrooms and spiderwebs and tall grass, all an eerie shade of green. The title and author name are at the top.

    Ellen Oh’s Spirit Hunters meets Katherine Arden’s Small Spaces in this middle grade supernatural mystery following a girl whose discovery of a magical clearing near her summer camp ends up putting her best friend in danger.

    Pina’s first trip to summer camp is a chance to escape her overbearing parents and finally go on an adventure with her best friend, Jo. But Camp Clear Skies hides a secret: a clearing in the deep woods the older kids call “the Glade.” After falling asleep here, Pina and Jo are able to enter one another’s dreams, transforming into superheroes and knights in shining armor, fighting back their nightmares in epic adventures.

    At first, the friends think they’ve discovered a secret more exciting than any video game—until Pina’s nightmares start leaking out into waking life. Worse, something seems to have followed them back from those dreams…and whatever it is, it’s taking over Jo. Jo has always been the superhero in their friendship, but Pina can’t just abandon them to their fate.

    To save her friend, Pina journeys deeper into the Glade than she ever has before, facing the worst of her own fears and Jo’s. There, she must confront the consciousness trying to steal her friend’s body and learn what happened twenty years ago that shut down Camp Clear Skies and changed the Glade forever.

    ON MAY 27, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU DREAM FOR.

  • finalist for the crawford, locus, & world fantasy awards

    "I loved this gorgeous book about blood magic, chosen family and refugees in a hostile city. Naseem Jamnia has created a rich, complex world in a very short space. You should definitely savor it."

    — Charlie Jane Anders, award-winning author of All the Birds in the Sky and the Unstoppables triology

    A nonbinary, aroace, refugee doctor encounters a magical plague in their new home and must use their taboo magic to find the culprit—before the government cracks down on all the migrants in the city. A slice-of-life fantasy novella introducing a queer- and transnormative, Persian-inspired secondary world.