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 episode Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Pick and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. It has been translated into 29 languages and is currently in development at Netflix as a tv series. Joshi was born in India and came to the U.S. with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts.  video
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  episode  video Joy Mast is a speaker, teacher and author who enjoys writing on faith topics. She lived in Spain and in Washington, DC before returning to her home state of North Carolina where she currently resides. After she experienced healing from compulsive overeating in her early 30’s, Joy wrote a course for women called Releasity, which helps women break free from emotional overeating. Her first book, Set Free & Satisfied, is the book form of that course and was released in the fall of 2023. To learn more about the book and course, visit her website at www.joymast.com. Joy graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Communication Studies. She enjoys reading, bringing friends and family together, the Spanish language, and laughing. Joy and her husband, Steve, a graphic designer, have two daughters.
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episode 10 Radhika Iyengar is the author of her debut book, ‘Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras’. She’s a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York. Radhika won the Red Ink award for Excellence in Indian Journalism (2018), and has been a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship, the Sanskriti Prabha Dutt Fellowship and Sangam House Residency. video
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 episode 10 video Zaid Hasan is an aspiring author, currently editing his debut novel. It’s an epic adventure story in the High Fantasy genre with elements of Sci-Fi mixed in. Zaid is a proud Muslim-American, born and raised in New York, hoping to explore deep themes and offer new perspectives through his art.
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 episode 8 video Lalitha Ramanathan is a Finance Manager turned writer. She is an avid blogger and has published her stories with many online platforms and anthologies. She is a 2022 Orange Flower Award Runner-up. Her upcoming debut book on parenting humor will be published by OM Books International. Lalitha lives with her family in Singapore. When not writing, she loves to read, play the violin, and design Rangolis, all the while gathering ideas for her next plot. She loves writing stories with a pinch of humour!
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 episode 8 video Natasha Sharma is a freelance software developer who moonlights as a writer. She has been a voracious consumer of the written word since her childhood and is never without a book (or a Kindle) by her side. A true blue feminist, she is passionate about creating awareness on gender inequality and other social issues. At the same time, her work displays a characteristic streak of cleverness and wit. Her stories have been published in several online magazines like eShe, Reading Frame, Thinking Pen, eFictionProject, and Penmancy, amongst others. Her op-ed pieces and other articles can be found on leading web portals such as MoneyControl, SheThePeople, and Women’s Web. Her stories have been printed in several anthologies like Everything Changed After That, Musings Mundane and Mortal, Existing Loudly, The Runner’s Tribe, TMYS’s Review: Food and Drinks, Dancing Gold Flecks, An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove, amongst others. In 2022, in association with Tell Me Your Story, York Ce
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  episode 7 video Veena Rao is an award-winning Indian-American journalist and author. Purple Lotus, her debut novel, is a 2021 American Fiction Award winner, a 2021 Georgia Author of the Year finalist, and an award-winning finalist in the multicultural and women’s fiction categories of the 2021 International Book Awards. She is the founding editor of NRI Pulse, an Atlanta-based news publication. She has been recognized by The Limca Book of Records (the Indian version of the Guinness Book of Records) as the first Indian woman to edit and publish a newspaper outside India. When she is not writing or meeting press deadlines, you will find her meditating or gardening. To find out more about Veena, visit her website www.veenaspulse.com.
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