Ashwitha Jayakumar has loved stories all her life, especially ones set in different times and worlds. Born in Chennai, she studied English literature and medieval studies at the universities of Edinburgh and Leeds in the United Kingdom. She is the author of the bestselling My Little Book of... series on Indian gods and goddesses published by Puffin India, as well as several works of fiction and non-fiction for Pratham Books, Scholastic India, and HarperCollins. She particularly enjoys writing non-fiction for children on history. She is presently hard at work writing two picture books for children aged 2+ and an all-ages work of narrative non-fiction on early modern India.
