Aysha Afrin K M She is born and brought up in Kerala. She is an English Literature graduate who currently is a teacher in training. She started working straight after graduation in Doha, Qatar, for a year and came back home to pursue higher education and do what she likes. Her greatest dream and passion is to become a published author, and she is slowly taking those small steps towards the heights she has set. When The Carnations Bloom is the first novel written by the author. She has also been part of numerous anthologies under various publications writing poems, articles, and short stories using her pseudonym Aaliyah Stark.