SHWETA GANESH KUMAR

Shweta Ganesh Kumar is an award-winning blogger and writer who has written fiction books for adults and children. She was awarded the prestigious UNFPA-Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in the Blog–Web Category for 2017 for her article, "Why The Phrase "Boys Will Be Boys" Is Damaging Our Sons", published in Women's Web. Her children's books have been translated into more than 18 languages across the world. 

 

New York Public Library's World Literature Festival and the Children's Museum of Manhattan's India Week have featured her children's books, which celebrate the diversity of the Indian subcontinent. Her latest and fifth children's book,  Leela's Special Day (Katha India), explores catastrophic flooding in the coastal Indian state of Kerala through the eyes of a child. ​

Shweta is the author of 'Coming Up On The Show… The Travails of a News Trainee' (Srishti Publishers, India) 'Between The Headlines' (Good Times Books) and 'A Newlywed's Adventures in Married Land' (Indirom) are commercial fiction novels that received rave reviews from readers, book bloggers and critics. 

 

Her short fiction and poetry have been published in Indian Voices- an anthology, Shades of Love (An Anthology of Short Stories), Winds of Change (An Anthology), Australian Women Online, Single Solitary Thought, Pothiz, Damazine, the Asia Writes Project, Bricolage Magazine, Synaesthesia Magazine, Writers Asylum and other literary magazines across the world.  Shweta currently hosts a podcast called Storytelling with Shweta on Spotify where she retells Indian myths for modern audiences. Her current writing project focuses on the intertwining of the personal and the political seen through the lens of family histories set in Kerala. 

Shweta lives in New York City with her husband, two children and dog.