Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia's debut novella, Wisha Wozzariter, won the Crossword Book Award 2013
for Children's Writing and is also featured in the 101 Indian Children's Books We Love! compilation.

Payal finds that stories abound everywhere, sometimes in real life, sometimes in the imagination. She studied English Literature at St Xavier's College, Bombay, and earned a Master of Science degree in Journalism from Northwestern University, Chicago. She worked with Outlook in Bombay and The Japan Times in Tokyo. Journalism, however, was meant only to be a pit stop, and today Payal is living her dream of being a full-time author.

Aravinda Anantharaman

Aravinda has always loved books and stories and it seemed only natural that when she grew up, she too would write. She has had several jobs in dotcoms and other places. Her longest and most enjoyable stint has however been with a children's library called Hippocampus.

Aravinda is part of a small group called Think Tibet that organizes events to introduce people to the Tibetan community. For Think Tibet, Aravinda set up Lama Mani Books to publish Tibetan stories for children. She has authored two books, Dorje's Holiday at the Gyenso Khang and Dolma Visits the City (2009).

Subhadra Sen Gupta

Subhadra Sen Gupta wrote since college and worked as a copywriter in many advertising agencies. She specialized in historical fiction and non-fiction, travel writing, detective and ghost stories as well as comic
strips.

Sreelata Menon

When computers hit the scene, life changed for Sreelata Menon. The Internet introduced her to a whole new way of writing and working. A Masters in History, she was with the Onlooker and World Trade Magazine before teaching History to undergraduates and doing a stint in an advertising agency. Now working from home, she is a widely-travelled freelance writer who enjoys writing on all kinds of topics.

She writes weekly blogs on freelance writing and content for a variety of websites. She is the author of Freelance Writing for the Newbie Writer, which has been released to rave reviews. Married to a civil servant, she has two grown-up sons and now keeps flitting between Delhi and Bangalore.

Aditi De

Aditi De is a Bangalore-based author, dreamer, traveller, editor (though not necessarily in that order). She loves children and the world of the word. In 1989, she launched Junior Quest, the popular magazine from the Chandamama group, and later edited the Open Sesame children's supplement at the Deccan Herald. Her books include A Twist in the Tale: More Indian Folktales (Puffin India). She has written children's columns for Chatterbox magazine, Deccan Chronicle and Young World.

Rukmini Chawla

Born in 1974 in Delhi, Rukmini Chawla has Masters' degrees from the University of Delhi and the University of Oxford. Among other things, she has worked in television, done freelance writing for adults and children, and
published a magazine called The Dance of Life. She currently works for Dorling Kindersley, a publishing firm.
Rukmini is married, and lives with her husband and daughter in Delhi.

Anu Kumar

Anu Kumar is a writer and editor based in Gurgaon, India. She studied history at Lady Shriram College and also has a degree in management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Her first novel, Letters fo