Born in Romania, Felicia Mihali has lived in Montreal since 2000. After studies in French, Mandarin and Dutch, she specialized in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Montreal, where she also studied Art History and English Literature. She is co-founder of the webzine Terra Nova, which she edited for five years, and has published seven novels in French since 2002. The Darling of Kandahar is the first of her novels to be written in English.