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…like all writers, i knew i was
different when stories came to me everyday, in class, in my sleep, in the
shower…finally, i said, “oh, what the heck” and wrote one of them down …
 I was born in Kathmandu, Nepal
then moved to the U.S. at a young age, where I was raised in the inner-city
Detroit downtown until teenage-hood.
I should have known I’d become
a writer when during college, I was scribbling stories about Indian
vampires converting innocent bystanders to Hinduism instead of taking notes
during Intro to Computer Science.
I did the standard South Asian
thing of getting a “real” job and began taking writing classes in 2003 in
my new home of Seattle, Washington.
My life changed that second
day of class when I was propelled to read one of my chapters aloud. The
support I got during that class forced me to finish that book…and the
next…and the next.
Four books and four years
later, I got THE CALL, fittingly, during a trip to India in late 2006. After
a breathless, middle-of-the-night phone call to my agent, it was official.
I was going to be a published author.
HOW TO SALSA IN A SARI is
my first YA novel from the Kimani-Tru line. SHRINK TO FIT followed in August 2008.
My inspiration is and always
has been my loving family, my fabulous critique partners, my supportive
friends all over the world, and of course my devoted husband and best  friend Manav, who is my
greatest enthusiast and critic.
Manav and I currently live in
Kirkland, Washington where we are regularly bossed over by a very demanding
gray tabby named Ash. I still have my “real” job at Microsoft which
provides me with hours of entertainment and inspiration.
I belong to an on-line writing
group called the Buzz
Blog Girls, the greatest group of
supportees a writer could ask for.
I love to chat, so please contact me if you want to talk to me some more.
To many more chapters with chai!
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