Khadizhat was born in Saint-Petersburg and raised in Tatarstan Republic in Russia, where she developed an appreciation for different cultures and languages from childhood. At the age of 18 she moved as a student to the United States and graduated from the University of Southern California with a major in International Relations. Additionally, she has lived in Spain and Hong Kong and has traveled the world for school, business and volunteering purposes. In 2016 she became a mother and continued exploring the world together with her husband and their little daughter Aya. It was during the family’s stay in Argentina and observation of her toddler’s genuine curiosity and interaction with new environments that she decided to write a series of books about travel as seen through the eyes of children. This is how the first book Nick and Aya Travel to Argentina was born.
