Reem has a bachelor’s degree in English and Creative Writing and co-manages a YouTube channel called Book Harlots. She is a first-generation Chaldean-American with a unique perspective on storytelling steeped in the cultural traditions of her upbringing. Growing up in a home with immigrant parents and navigating a strict Catholic and cultural background of a small Indigenous group from Iraq, her narrative voice is rich and unique. She speaks both Arabic and Chaldean in addition to English. She is a foodie with a huge extended family and loves highlighting those aspects in her work. She tends to describe herself as the perfect archetype for a heroine of a romcom – quirky, a little clumsy. and looking for the love of her life inside of a romance novel. Reem is a Potter-head, Supernatural fanatic, BDB Harlot, a Fashionista, and a believer in love at first sight.

You can find other stories by Reem under her other Pen name, Sage Spelling.