User:Fida Abbott

Fida Abbott is an award-winning author and blogger. Her book Enthusiasm received a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award from the National Association of Book Entrepreneur (NABE) in 2010. Enthusiasm has been published in Indonesian by Yayasan Komunikasi Bina Kasih publisher in February 14, 2012.

In 2011, Fida was chosen as 2011 winner of 50 Great Writers You Should be Reading, presented by TheAuthorsShow.com. Her blog, www.fidaabbott.blogspot.com received Honorable Mention from BlogNetAwards.com in 2009 and was a Finalist of Christian Indonesian Blogger Festival in 2008, presented by Jawaban.com.

Fida has been writing since she was thirteen. Her first short story, Kidung Kasih Untuk Lintang, was published in the Middle School Magazine, SMP Negeri 7, Surabaya, Indonesia, the city where she was born. Her first publication in the local daily newspaper, Memorandum, was her poem she wrote when she was in High School, SMA Negeri 7, Surabaya. On June 5, 2018, her new published book, Exploring My Ideas, was released.

She graduated with honors from University of Pembangunan Nasional (UPN), Surabaya in 1993. Her diploma is Bachelor of Agriculture. In 2002 she came to the USA and married her American fiance. With her husband and her daughter, they live in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, a city where she resides and expresses herself in her writings in English and Indonesian.

She is the director of an online writing course, www.pelatihanmenulis.com, as well as KabarIndonesia, an online Indonesian news, based on the citizen reporter, www.kabarindonesia.com. She is also a Defense Language Instructor for Bahasa Indonesia, serving United States Air Force (USAF) and a member of National Language Service Corps as a speaker of Indonesian. In addition to writing, she is a motivational speaker covering writing and other topics (multicultural marriage, parenting, and being an immigrant). (*)