Aditi De is a writer, photographer, blogger, big-time dreamer. She is passionate about solo travel, crafts and handlooms, music, dance, theatre, art, and the creative spirit.

Aijaz Khan’s debut film, The White Elephant (2009) premiered at the prestigious International Film Festival of India. Travelling to more than 10 film festivals including New

Ameen Haque is a storyteller, a story coach and the founder of Storywallahs. He can climb a mountain, walk miles and stay up all night to

Anita Vachharajani has a Masters in English Literature and in Linguistics. She has just published a pictorial biography for Young Adults called ‘Amrita Sher-Gil: Rebel with

Anuradha Ruhil Barua has extensive experience teaching the IB Diploma. She is passionate about language (s) and teaches English and Hindi. Her goal is to help

Archana Garodia Gupta with a lifelong passion for books, languages, travel and history, Archana has a knack for weaving delightful nuggets of information into engaging tales.

Arefa Tehsin is the author of several fiction and non-fiction books on wildlife, for children and adults and contributes columns, features and travelogues to various dailies

Arundhati Venkatesh is one of India’s most-loved children’s authors. She writes about football fans and lunchbox looters, tooth troubles and lie detectors, snoring giants and book-eating

Bhakti Mathur took to writing in 2010 when she created the ‘Amma Tell Me’ Series of children’s picture books about Indian festivals and mythology. Recently she

When Bijal Vachharajani is not reading Harry Potter, she is Editor Scissorhands at Pratham Books. A journalist, Bijal is the author of four children’s books, So

Colin has been a teacher in the middle school, high school, in pre-university programmes and undergraduate programmes where he has taught English language, literature, theory of

David Melling is a bestselling author-illustrator with worldwide acclaim. He started in the 1980’s as an editorial illustrator before working in several London-based animation studios drawing

Deepak Dalal gave up a career in Chemical Engineering to write stories for children. He lives in Pune with his wife, two daughters and several dogs

Pika Nani (Deepika Murthy) is the author of the thrilling detective series, The Adventures of Shrilok Homeless and Shrilok Homeless the Ultimate Adventures Vol 2, published

Devangana Dash is a New Delhi-based designer, illustrator and book maker. When she’s not designing books for a living, she reads, writes, draws a little more

Devdutt Pattanaik writes on relevance of mythology in modern times. Trained in medicine, he worked for 15 years in the healthcare and pharma industries before he

Devika Cariapa is a Delhi based author with a lifelong passion for archaeology and unearthing stories from the past. Her book, ‘India Through Archaeology: Excavating History’

Dr. Devika Rangachari is an award-winning children’s writer whose book, Queen of Ice (Duckbill), was on the White Raven list, won the Neev Young Adult Book

Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj, PhD (Cantab.) is an anthropologist and author. Her book, “Where are you From? Middle Class Migrants in the Modern World” (2003, University of

Donna Jo Napoli writes for children of all ages, from preschoolers up through high schoolers. While she writes in all genres — from funny to scary,

Gita has worked with children all over the world, earned her master’s degree in literacy education from Columbia University and now teaches second grade in Princeton,

Jahnavi Barua is an author based in Bangalore. Published Next Door (Penguin) to wide critical acclaim and Rebirth (Penguin) and is currently working on a new

Stories are Janaki Sabesh’s passion- writing , performing and living them. Janaki’s engagement with children began with “The Learning Train” (1995), an album that simplified math

Jane De Suza is the author of Flyaway Boy, which has launched to great reviews. Other books include the best selling SuperZero series, Uncool (and books

Jeeva Raghunath , storyteller/author. Pioneered the storytelling movement in Tamilnadu, India. She has represented her country at various festivals around the globe. Awarded ” Best entrepreneur

Joeanna has a wide and varied interest in everything interesting. She grew up in Bombay, lived briefly in Chennai, and now lives in Gurgaon. It was

Kamala Mukunda has been a school teacher for 25 years, teaching children from age 6 to 18, in a teacher-run small school called Centre For Learning.

Katie Day is an American who has lived overseas for over 30 years. She has a masters in Children’s Literature from the UK and teaching and

Katie Smith Milway, a native of Vancouver, B.C., and resident of Boston, is winner of the Massachusetts Best Book for Children Award and Children’s Africana Book

Kinyanjui Kombani ‘the banker who writes’ is a creative writer, banker, learning solutions specialist and entrepreneur. He is the recipient of the 2018 CODE Burt Award

Lakshmi Nambiar is a gallerist running Shrishti Art gallery, one of the oldest and leading contemporary art galleries in Hyderabad. Lakshmi is also a Partner with

Mamta Nainy is a children’s writer, editor and translator based in New Delhi. She spent some years in advertising before an apple fell on her head

Maya earned a BA in English from Middlebury College and a Masters in Education Policy from Harvard University. She spent seventeen years teaching high school English

Nadine is an experienced teacher-librarian with a demonstrated history of working in the IB environment, following innovative practices. She is a strong education professional, demonstrating lifelong

Nafisa Nandini Crishna is an illustrator and writer who tells stories through her drawings and words. She has worked within the field of illustration for 9

A writer, actor and child-rights activist, Nandana has written 6 children’s books, translated into 15 languages globally: In My Heart (Puffin, 2019), The Monkey Who Wanted

Writing has been my passion since a very young age. As a child, jotting down little adventures and turning rhyming words into verses of poems was

An award-winning children’s books author, Natasha Sharma began her writing journey with the ever-popular book ‘Icky, Yucky, Mucky’. With eighteen books to her credit, Natasha has

Nazia Erum is the critically acclaimed author of the book Mothering A Muslim. Her work around inter-faith harmony has found mention in the Gaurdian, Washington Post

Paro Anand has been honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar Award, 2017 for her book Wild Child, now published as Like Smoke with additional

Payal Kapadia grew up being any sort of girl she wanted to be; reading everything she could get her hands on; and following her imagination wherever

P.G. Bell is a native of south Wales, where he was raised on a diet of Greek mythology, ghost stories and Doctor Who. He’s had all

Poile Sengupta is a novelist, poet, playwright and short fiction writer, for both children and adults. In 1968, she began “A Letter to You”, a humour

Prashant Miranda grew up in Bangalore, studied at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and moved to Canada soon after. He designed children’s animated shows for

Priya Kuriyan is a children’s book illustrator and comics maker based in Bangalore. She has directed animated films for the Sesame street show (India) and the

Proiti Roy is a designer and illustrator, who started her career in advertising in the late 80s. Later, she taught art and craft to children in

Rasil has been a passionate reader since the day she discovered a library. She worked in technology for 10 years before making the leap into a

Reema is a dreamer, full of ideas to change the world. Her favorite job is daydreaming and rescuing someone, anyone, be it plants, animals or dead

Richa Jha is an author and picture book enthusiast. Her books have won several prestigious national and international awards and nominations. She is also the founder

Roopa Pai is one of India’s best-known children’s writers. Adults and children enjoy her books on themes ranging from sci-fi, fantasy, fiction, and subjects like science,

Ruby Hembrom is the founder and director of adivaani (first voices), an archiving and publishing outfit of and by Adivasis started in 2012. A trained instructional

When she was eight, she started writing and illustrating her first book. The Mahabharata – A Child’s View went on to be published in seven language

Sandhya Rao has worked in the media as print journalist, books editor and children’s books writer. She has published several books for children and rendered Astrid

Sangeetha Kadur finds her niche as a wildlife artist. Twice nominated for the BBC’s Wildlife Artist of the Year, her works have been published across a

Sarada is a voice of reason who loves to problem solve while doing her 10 minute plank routine. Otherwise, she is a single tasker with a

Shabnam Minwalla is a mother of three. In the little off-time that this brain-scrambling job permits, she writes food articles, columns and book reviews for magazines

PROFESSOR SHAILAJA MENON leads the Early Literacy Initiative at TISS-Hyderabad. Concurrently, she teaches at the School of Education, Azim Premji University. Shailaja has her Ph.D. in

As co-founder and Publishing Director of Karadi Tales Company, Shobha Viswanath has been responsible for steering the direction of her company from brilliantly produced audio books

An incurable reader and writer, Shruti Garodia has an abiding love of history, especially through storytelling. She is a keen traveller, and loves new places and

Sonia Mehta is a children’s author who believes that firing up a child’s imagination means opening up a world of adventure. Her body of work ranges

Srijan Pal Singh is an author, public speaker, education innovator and social entrepreneur. Currently, he is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam Centre,

Stephen Alter is the author of twenty books of fiction and non-fiction. His books for younger readers include THE CLOUDFARERS and THE SECRET SANCTUARY. His most

Sujata Noronha is an educator with a specialisation in Early Literacy. She works in the library and is based in Goa where she runs a not

Susan Perrow is an author and storyteller who passionately believes in the ‘power of story’. Her writing genre is therapeutic/healing stories. It is best described as

Upasana Makati is the Founder & Publisher of White Print – India’s first English lifestyle magazine in Braille for the visually impaired. After realizing the absolute

Urvashi Balasubramaniam (aged 14) is a poet and the author of the book ‘The Little Glow’, which she wrote when she was just eleven years old.

Veera Hiranandani is the author of The Night Diary which received the 2019 Newbery Honor Award, the 2019 Walter Dean Myers Honor Award, and the 2018

Zai Whitaker writes for children and young adults and her books include Andamans Boy, Kali and the Rat Snake, and Kanna Panna. Her other interests are