Hi, I'm Nego, author of the award-winning dystopian novel Severed Roots. I've eclectic interests, including nature walks, spirituality, family, and cheese lasagna. I have a Masters in Political Science and I have diverse work experiences. One of my passions is the written word. I like to read everything under the sun, both fiction and non-fiction, as long as it's well written. Among my favourite novelists are Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, George Orwell, Cormac McCarthy, Suzanne Collins, Chaim Potok, Jerzy Kosinski and Jeanne DuPrau. My favourite genre is dystopian. Many people think of dystopian fiction as taking place in a totalitarian society, or in a post-apocalyptic one. But a dystopian story can also be set in a democracy -–highliting the moral depravity, inequalities, existential loneliness, etc, that a FREE and DEMOCRATIC society has drifted towards. I like to write dystopian fiction that is thought-provoking as it puts a lens to current societal controversies like marriage, patriarchy, gender and the continued relevance of the nuclear family. One of the key themes in Severed Roots is: Who are you if you have no roots, no real connections?