Uma Krishnaswami

Uma Krishnaswami

reading at the 2014 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Born 1956
Occupation Writer, writing teacher
Period 1990s–present
Genre Children's literature, picture books, non-fiction
Website
umakrishnaswami.org

Uma Krishnaswami is an author of picture books and novels for children, and a writing teacher. She is "recognized as a major voice in the expanding of international and multicultural young adult fiction and children's literature."[1]

Biography

Uma Krishnaswami was born in 1956 in New Delhi, India. She received a degree in Political Science, and a master's degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi in India.[2] In 1979, she and her husband moved to the United States where she received an additional graduate degree.[2][3] They have one son [4] and live in Aztec, New Mexico.

Her first published story appeared in Children's World, a magazine published in India, when she was thirteen. Her stories and poems have been published in Cricket, Highlights and Cicada.[1] Her books, which include picture books, collections of stories of India, non-fiction books and novels, are published in English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil and six other languages.[5][6]

Chachaji's Cup, one of Krishnaswami's picture books, was adapted into a musical and performed in several theaters in both New York City and California in 2010.[7]

Krishnaswami was a founding co-director of the Bisti Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project in New Mexico.[3] She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and a nonresident member of The Children's Book Guild of Washington DC.[8] She has taught writing to adults and children for years, and for over ten years she was the writer in residence at the Aztec Ruins National Monument.[9][10] During that time she also taught writing classes online through Writers on the Net.[11] She currently teaches in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.[12]

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

Picture books

Easy readers

Retold story collections

Short fiction

Nonfiction

Co-authored

References

Interviews

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