UMA KRISHNASWAMI is the author of more than twenty books for children, from picture books (The Girl of the Wish Garden, Bright Sky, Starry City and Out of the Way! Out of the Way!)to novels for young readers (The Grand Plan to Fix Everything). Her books have been published in eleven languages and have been picked for CCBC Choices, Parents’ Choice, IRA’s Notable Books for a Global Society, the Scientific American Young Readers’ Book Award, Bank Street Best Books of the Year and the Paterson Prize. Originally published in India, Book Uncle and Me won the Scholastic Asian Book Award and the Crossword Book Award.
Born in New Delhi, Uma teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA program in writing for children and young adults. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.