Biography Priti Birla Maheshwari was born in India and moved to Montreal and then to Toronto with her family. She graduated from the University of Toronto, majoring in French and then completed her Association Montessori International (AMI) CASA training. She then moved to the United States where she completed a Masters of Education in Curriculum …
Biography Hi! My name is Gabrielle Deonath, but everyone calls me Gabbie. I’m a 25-year-old Muslim, Indo-Caribbean American woman, born and raised in New York. I also happen to be a writer and editor, with over nine years of editorial experience. I always loved to read, write, and tell stories from an early age, but …
Biography Rukhsanna Guidroz was born in Manchester, England. With a Persian-Indian father and a Chinese mother, Rukhsanna was always drawn to traveling to faraway places. After studying French at King’s College, London, and political science at the Sorbonne, Paris, she left for the steamy shores of Hong Kong. There, she worked as a reporter for the Hong Kong …
Biography Hi, my name is Priya Huq and I’m a Bangladeshi American artist / cartoonist. I am also an illustrator and occasional writer. My pronouns are she/they. Feel free to take a look at my CV or email me: ami.batsa at gmail.com For work opportunities please contact my agent Anjali Singh: anjali at pandeliterary.com
Biography Sheba Karim is the author of the YA novels Skunk Girl, That Thing We Call a Heart, which made several Best Book lists including Bank Street and Kirkus, Mariam Sharma Hits the Road, a NPR Best Book of the Year, and The Marvelous Mirza Girls, winner of the South Asia Book Award. Her fiction and essays have …
Biography Supriya is an award-winning author, illustrator, and screenwriter who grew up in the Midwest, where she learned Hindi as a child by watching three Hindi movies a week. Winner of the New Visions Award for her international bestselling middle grade novel AHIMSA, (Tu Books, 2017), Supriya has worked on the writing teams for several Hindi films, …
Biography Rajani LaRocca was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in the Boston area, where she practices medicine and writes award-winning books for young readers, including the Newbery Honor winning middle grade novel in verse, Red, White, and Whole. She’s always been an omnivorous reader, and now she is an omnivorous writer of …
Biography If she could, Andrée Poulin would read from morning to night. Her love of reading is what brought her to writing. After working as a journalist for many years, she went into international development. Her picture books and novels, for children of various age: from 4 to 14 years, have won a few prizes …
Biography Anuradha D. Rajurkar is the award-winning author of American Betiya, a YALSA Best Book of 2022, a SABA 2022 honor book, and is included in Cosmopolitan’s “125 Best YA Novels of All Time.” Born and raised in the Chicago area to South Asian immigrant parents, Anuradha earned two degrees from Northwestern University, and for many years had the …
Biography I’m Kamini Ramdeen, and I work as a senior news editor at theSkimm in New York City. And I am a creative ball of energy. I spent the majority of my career editing the creative works of others and wanted to take some ownership of my bubbling creative energies. In 2020, I started the …
