Supriya grew up in the Midwest, where she learned Hindi as a child by watching three Hindi movies a week. Winner of the New Visions Award for her middle grade novel AHIMSA (Tu Books, 2017), Supriya is a screenwriter who has worked on the writing teams for several Hindi films. Supriya’s books include AHIMSA, THE MANY COLORS OF HARPREET SINGH (Sterling, 2019, art by Alea Marley), AMERICAN AS PANEER PIE (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2020), STRONG AS FIRE, FIERCE AS FLAME (Tu Books, 2020), BINDU'S BINDIS (Sterling, 2021, art by Parvati Pillai), THAT THING ABOUT BOLLYWOOD (Simon and Schuster BFYR, 2021), BROWN IS BEAUTIFUL (FSG, 2022, art by Noor Sofi), MY NAME (FSG, 2023, art by Sandhya Prabhat). Supriya is the illustrator of MY DIWALI LIGHT (Raakhee Mirchandani, Little, Brown, 2022), and AMERICAN DESI (Jyoti Rajan Gopal, Little, Brown, 2022). Supriya is represented by Kathleen Rushall at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, and Kim Yau at Echo Lake Entertainment for film/TV rights. Learn more at www.supriyakelkar.com
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