Heba Al-Wasity
Heba Al-Wasity writes gothic fantasy where haunted houses, restless spirits, and dangerous bargains sit alongside questions of displacement, inequality, and belonging. Her debut novel, Weavingshaw, emerged from an unusually personal path to fiction. She had carried the idea for the story since her teenage years, but it was not until the strain of working in medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic that she began writing it in earnest. What started as a way to process difficult experiences and sleepless nights eventually became a bestselling gothic romantasy. Born in Libya to Iraqi refugee parents, Al-Wasity grew up in Canada before moving to…