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I am Homeira Soufi, a Kurdish woman born and raised in a small mountainous village in Iran. As a little girl, I was known by others as the girl who wrote poems and was a good storyteller. On cold winter's nights, even my Granny would want me to tell them stories so she could enjoy the unexpected challenges and sometimes bizarre endings.After I got my bachelor's degree in Persian literature from the literature Faculty of Urmia University, I married and migrated to Australia in 2014. As a full-time mother, I made myself busy learning English at home. One day as I was talking to one of my friends, she asked, ""How are you doing with all these Covid lockdowns? It's so stressful.""""Well, I'm doing fine,"" I said.""I can see, but how?""""I live in my world, all the adventures and stories,"" I smiled.""You mean those stories that you used to tell us?""""Yes."" ""Can you tell me one? I have missed those. If you have time?"" And I told three of them, and then she asked me, ""Why don't you try to write one?""""But I don't like writing. It's hard and boring,"" I said. She insisted, and I started to write one of my favourite ones called The Tears of Mount Sinjar; unaware that writing was going to be the most satisfying job I could have ever imagined doing; instead of people listening to me telling the stories, the joyful feeling of holding the reader's hands and walking them into the world that I see and live in, is inexpressible.
