Badria Al Shihhi is a novelist, academic professor and a Deputy Chairperson of the Omani State Council, with a PhD and MSc. In Chemical Engineering from Loughborough University. She has worked in different positions and gained many experiences. Among her busy non-literary work, she has managed to fulfil her favourite hobby of writing and published three novels and many short stories at an earlier stage (started at age of 12). She is the first female novelist in Oman. Her first novel “Crossing Embers” which was first published in 1999; is considered by many critics as the birth of true Omani novel. Badria is also a mother of five children.
She is a frequent traveller and plans an early retirement to spend more time on writing and exploring new places.