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Aamna Qureshi is a Pakistani-American author based in New York

At just 26 years old, she has six published books

In July 2025, she received an unexpected email from someone she hadn't spoken to in over a decade after they spotted one of her novels in a bookstore

When 26-year-old author Aamna Qureshi checked her inbox recently, she didn’t expect to find a message that would bring back sentimental memories from over a decade ago.

While browsing through Barnes & Noble, her eighth-grade English Honors teacher, Nicole Wallace, had spotted Qureshi’s name on the cover of a book, bought a signed copy and sent an email to congratulate her former student on being a published author.

For Qureshi, the message struck a deep chord — especially since Wallace had played such a pivotal

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