Jaya Mehta

Jaya Mehta is the co-author, with Susan Lynn Meyer, of a forthcoming picture book titled Nisha's Just-Right Christmas Tree (Beaming Books), based on her childhood in Brooklyn Heights. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University, and taught both English and non-western literature for many years as a college professor. She won a LitUp Fellowship from Reese's Book Club for a YA novel manuscript in 2022. She lives in Chelmsford Massachusetts, among all the animals left behind by her college-age twins. She loves observing wildlife, cuddling with her two dogs, attending storytelling events, travelling to foreign countries (the more foreign the more interesting), and playing board games with her family during which her husband and son cheat madly.