At the young age of eleven years old, Sumeya Abdi Ali began writing comic books in her bedroom to cure her boredom. Slowly, that love for storytelling grew into writing short stories in magical settings. By the time she was seventeen, she started her Wattpad account and began posting on the site to share stories with the world. In 2015, Ali won a Watty Award for Ditching Greek in the New Adult Genre category.